SHINE TOGETHER: Southern Exposure's 2021 Auction Catalog

AUCTION CATALOG

Southern Exposure’s Annual Art Auction Online on Friday, March 26, 2021 at 7:00PM

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Preview Exhibition

March 17-25, 2021

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Auction Rules

All acquisitions must be purchased in full. Each auction item is sold AS IS without warranty. Southern Exposure reserves the right to withdraw any item at any time before the actual sale.

ALL SALES ARE FINAL NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES

Artwork Pick-up + Shipping

•Pick-up: Artwork will be available for pick-up at Southern Exposure March 31 – April 9. Auction winners will be notified to make an appointment.

• Shipping + Delivery: If you are not local, we can ship artwork to you via an art shipping company. Shipping will be billed to you at cost.

Payment

All payments must be made directly via our website at soex.org/auction Sales Tax: 8.5% San Francisco sales tax will be charged on all sales.

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Artists JOHNNA ARNOLD MIGUEL ARZABE JOHN BANKSTON MARK BAUGH SASAKI JD BELTRAN + SCOTT MINNEMAN KIM BENNETT LEO BERSAMINA LISA K. BLATT LUKAZA BRANFMAN-VERISSIMO VAL BRITTON ETHAN CAFLISCH CRAIG CALDERWOOD TAMMY RAE CARLAND COURTNEY CERRUTI JEFFREY CHEUNG TAKMING CHUANG HOLLY COLEY RICHARD COLMAN MARY CONRAD AMANDA CURRERI ALI DADGAR DEMART DENARO GENE DOMINIQUE CHRIS DUNCAN RICKI DWYER ALICIA ESCOTT RODNEY EWING DAVID FULLARTON RENEE GERTLER ALEXANDER KORI GIRARD JIM GOLDBERG REBEKAH GOLDSTEIN MATT GONZALEZ REA LYNN DE GUZMAN DIANE ANDREWS HALL MICHAEL HALL KRISTIE HANSEN JAMIL HELLU TARANEH HEMAMI DANA HEMENWAY CLIFF HENGST SCOTT HEWICKER LONNIE HOLLEY

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TANYA HOLLIS SARAH HOTCHKISS CARRIE HOTT TANIA HOUTZAGER SEAN HOWE HUGHEN/STARKWEATHER COLTER JACOBSEN JASON JÄGEL CHRIS JOHANSON EIRIK JOHNSON DAVID KASPRZAK BESSMA KHALAF SAHAR KHOURY MARY ANNE KLUTH MICHAEL KOEHLE NOAH LANG KRIS LANG EVIE LEDER CHARLIE LEESE JASON LEGGIERE TERRI LOEWENTHAL KIJA LUCAS NATHAN LYNCH WHITNEY LYNN PHILLIP MAISEL PABLO MANGA MICHELLE MANSOUR VANESSA MARSH PATRICK MARTINEZ ALICIA MCCARTHY MICHAEL MCCONNELL ANNE MCGUIRE KLEA MCKENNA TOM MCKINLEY JENNA MEACHAM JIM MELCHERT MASAKO MIKI ROBERT MINERVINI NATANI NOTAH RAMEKON O’ARWISTERS YÉTUNDÉ OLÁGBAJÚ SANDRA ONO KELLY ORDING KARI ORVIK

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JENNIE OTTINGER ERIK PARRA ALISON PEBWORTH KEITH PETERSEN CARISSA POTTER CARLSON MEL PREST GENEVIEVE QUICK RACHELLE REICHART KATE RHOADES MEGHAN RIEPENHOFF J RIVERA PANSA BRION NUDA ROSCH BLAISE ROSENTHAL BYRON RYONO JAMES SANSING RON MOULTRIE SAUNDERS AZIN SERAJ JENNY SHARAF JENNIE SMITH SARAH A. SMITH CHRIS SOLLARS NELLIE KING SOLOMON DHARMA STRASSER MACCOLL CHARLENE TAN SARAH THIBAULT SIMON TRAN TARA TUCKER ANNA VALDEZ JAMIE VASTA BEN VENOM ANDY VOGT CATHERINE WAGNER HANNAH WAITERS ADRIAN OCTAVIUS WALKER AMANDA WALTERS LEWIS WATTS DEIRDRE WHITE DAVID WILSON JENIFER K WOFFORD CHELSEA WONG CHRISTINE WONG YAP ROCHELLE YOUK MINOOSH ZOMORODINIA

Live Auction 62. MICHAEL KOEHLE 50. HUGHEN/STARKWEATHER 68. TERRI LOEWENTHAL 114. JENNY SHARAF 88. ROBERT MINERVINI 52. JASON JÄGEL 54. CHRIS JOHANSON 32. JIM GOLDBERG 80. ALICIA MCCARTHY

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MICHAEL KOEHLE Typhoon III 2021, Inkjet print on laser cut paper on panel 24” x 36” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $8,000 Starting Bid: $3,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION We are adapted to understand local catastrophes or anticipate dangers a year or two away. It is difficult to imagine how our individual decisions can sum to impact the entire world, decades from now. Through my art process, I am trying to develop some sense of how weather will change us. It is a visceral approach to the questions at hand - a way to bring the far away close and immediate.

ARTIST’S BIO Michael Koehle received his BA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley, his MS in Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis, and his MFA in studio art from Mills College. He has received residency grants from the Headlands Center for the Arts, Autodesk Pier 9, and Djerassi. He is also the recipient of the general prize in the YouFab Global Creative Awards in Japan and the Murphy & Cadogan fellowship. Koehle lives and works in Oakland, CA. 6

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HUGHEN/STARKWEATHER Attempts at Containment 2021, Ink, pencil, and gouache on paper 22” x 30” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $4,250 Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This artwork is based on the oil spill at Chevron’s Richmond CA refinery in February 2021, the latest in a long history of environmental and health hazards associated with the refinery.

Chevron attempted to contain the spill using a PVC inflatable containment boom that floats on the surface of water in the shape of an arc. Aerial images show oil flowing freely past the arc and into San Francisco Bay. The Richmond Standard, founded and funded by Chevron, is one of the few local news outlets, but had no media coverage of the 600 gallon spill.

ARTIST’S BIO Hughen/Starkweather is the collaboration of San Francisco artists Jennifer Starkweather and Amanda Hughen. Their site-specific, research-based artworks reinterpret complex narratives about place with new and unexpected forms. By allowing their artworks to resonate with collected data without presenting it in a didactic way, the artists do not attempt to offer concrete information, but hope to prompt curiosity and new perspectives in the viewer. Recent work involves investigating the past, present and possible futures of places where water meets land. Exhibitions include the Asian Art Museum, the Public Policy Institute of California, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the University of San Francisco. Residencies include the DeYoung Museum, Headlands, Recology, Skowhegan, Ucross, and Yaddo. Recent large-scale art commissions have included SFMOMA for Chase Center and the San Francisco Central Subway Station at Union Square. Starkweather received an MFA from Tyler School of Art; Hughen received an MFA from University of California, Berkeley.

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TERRI LOEWENTHAL Psychscape 34 (Galena Creek Falls, NV) 2020, Archival pigment print 40” x 30” Courtesy of the Artist and CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions Retail Value: $9,500 Starting Bid: $4,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My work draws upon the history of landscape photography, reimagining the genre in a psychedelic light. Each image is a single-exposure, in-camera composition that utilizes special optics I developed to compress vast spaces into complex, evocative environments. My technique shifts colors into oversaturated hues and overlaps multiple vantage points, offering the viewer a revelatory experience of the landscape. I’ve always been envious of painters’ ability to shift reality in whichever direction they choose. With this work, I wanted to do something similar: create a world that is familiar yet also wild, otherworldly - presenting landscape not as it may appear visually, but how it could be experienced emotively and through the imagination.

ARTIST’S BIO Terri Loewenthal is an Oakland-based artist whose work examines the intersection of landscape and psyche. She has exhibited at diverse venues including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), Minnesota Street Projects (San Francisco, CA) and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA). Her work is included in many private collections. She is also founder of The Chetwood, a residency program that provides housing for artists visiting the Bay Area, allowing them to create lasting community with supportive peer networks outside of typical art-making structures. Loewenthal is a frequent collaborator with many Bay Area arts organizations including Creative Growth (Oakland, CA) and has been an active musician for over a decade; her bands Call and Response, Rubies and Shock have performed extensively nationally and internationally. Terri has a Bachelor of Arts from Rice University in Houston, Texas and is originally from Washington, D.C. and South Florida.

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JENNY SHARAF YOU ARE INVITED TO THE DINNER PARTY 2020, Paint, dye, canvas 48” x 36” Courtesy of the Artist and Berggruen Gallery Retail Value: $9,000 Starting Bid: $3,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This recent painting is part of a series of works made during the artists’ residency at Space Program San Francisco. Sharaf is committed to pouring paint and does not use brushes. Her process is always in real time, without edits.

ARTIST’S BIO Jenny Sharaf, born in Los Angeles in 1985, is a multidisciplinary artist, living and working in San Francisco. Her paintings, installations, videos, and happenings celebrate process, while reflecting on art history, feminism and abstraction. Sharaf also has a strong mural practice, with walls as far as Tokyo and Beirut. The mythology of the California girl leads the way to tell a complex and fragmented narrative of art making in the 21st century. Sharaf received her M.F.A. from Mills College and shows locally with Berggruen Gallery.

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ROBERT MINERVINI Part and Parcel 2016, Acrylic on canvas 32” x 48” x 1.5” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Retail Value: $8,000 Starting Bid: $3,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My paintings examine spatial environments and notions of utopia and dystopia in large-scale, multi-layered artworks. While informed by the everyday places, my works are invented spaces that revel in artificiality and allude to a parallel reality. Through cityscapes, landscapes, and floral still-life arrangements, I engage subject matter that addresses the ecological impact of humanity on the landscape, elements of growth, decay, and extinction in a contemporary, and often regional context.

ARTIST’S BIO Robert Minervini is an artist working in painting and public art. His work examines notions of utopia through built environments. He has exhibited nationally with Hirschl & Adler Modern, Edward Cella Gallery, Rena Bransten Gallery, the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. He has participated in artist in residence programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Headlands Center for the Arts. His work has been reviewed in the LA Times, Modern Painters, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives and works in Oakland, CA. 14

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JASON JÄGEL Memorabilia

2012, Gouache and ink on paper 15” x 11” Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery 16 Retail Value: $4,000 Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Memorabilia is an improvised work in a tradition I like to call fictional autobiography. Evolving from a lifelong practice of compulsive doodling it is at essence a mode for self-reflection. The characters, words and marks are a surrogate for my feeling, but with spontaneous drawing and painting the work always develops its own course. Looking back at more than 35 years of practice I see that I want to make something that I don’t -or can’t- fully understand. I want to look at my own work and feel wonder.

ARTIST’S BIO Jason Jägel is a painter, educator, and commissioned public artist. His work uses the syntax of comics to conjure fictional worlds where anything can happen at anytime, like everyday life. “I want to create a place with its own inner life and see what happens,” says Jägel. He received an MFA from Stanford University in 2002. His work is in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Jägel has completed twelve commissioned public artworks in San Francisco, all in the context of transforming neighborhoods and innovative large-scale projects. His 2018 commission, The Author & Her Story, is a 13x34 foot ceramic tile mosaic installed at San Francisco International Airport’s new Harvey Milk Terminal 1.

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CHRIS JOHANSON Representation of Contemporary Person 2009, Acrylic and latex on paper, handmade recycled wood frame 18” x 23 3/4” Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel Retail Value: $6,000 Starting Bid: $2,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Johanson pursues projects that reflect a DIY ethos and an interest in human relationships, society, and the environment. Often taking the form of brightly colored paintings, drawings, and large-scale installations, his work presents a sincere and direct cosmology of shapes and figures that exude positive energy while questioning their existence and the world around them.

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California-native Chris Johanson is a key member of San Francisco’s Mission School. Johanson engages with the meditative qualities of art-making and sincere direct communication through painting and sculpture. Johanson’s work plays between the techniques of figuration and abstraction, as he sees these two modes of working as interconnected expressions of strong beliefs in environmentalism, compassion and peaceful co-existence. He has exhibited widely in museums and galleries internationally over the past decade. His work has been the subject of solo shows at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, New York (2014); the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Oregon (2014); LA MoCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, California (2013); and the Modern Institute in Glasgow, United Kingdom (2013). Johanson has been featured in important group exhibitions including Glasgow International 2012 and the 2002 Whitney Biennial. He is represented by Altman Siegel Galelry, Awesome Vistas, The Modern Institute, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Georg Kargl, Albert Baronian.

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JIM GOLDBERG Near Panepistimio Square 2003/2007, Gelatin silver prints with ink and tape 8” x 16” Courtesy of the Artist and Casemore Kirkeby Retail Value: $12,500 Starting Bid: $8,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This piece is a grouping of three contact prints created for the series Open See. All of these images were taken in or around Athens, Greece. Goldberg has created a one of a kind object from these prints, marking on them and collaging them together. Open See follows refugees, immigrant populations, and trafficked individuals traveling from war-torn, economically devastated, and often AIDS-ravaged countries, to make new homes in Europe. Goldberg spent six years documenting the stories of refugees from over 18 countries, in Eastern Europe and the Middle East to Asia and Africa.

ARTIST’S BIO Jim Goldberg’s innovative use of image and text make him a landmark photographer of our times.

His long-term projects include Rich and Poor (1977-85), Raised by Wolves (1985-95), and Open See (2003-2011), for which he was awarded the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2011. Goldberg’s works are in numerous collections including the: Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, National Gallery of Art, Alinari National Museum of Photography in Florence, Le Musee de la Photographie, Belgium, and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany. Goldberg is Professor Emeritus at California College of the Arts and a member of Magnum Photos. He is represented by Casemore Kirkeby Gallery in San Francisco.

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ALICIA MCCARTHY Untitled 2021, Colored pencil on panel 24” x 24” Courtesy of the Artist and Berggruen Gallery Retail Value: $11,000 Starting Bid: $4,500

ARTIST’S BIO Alicia McCarthy was born in Oakland, California in 1969. She is known by her signature style of vibrantly colored, often woven patterns on mixed media panels. Found wood and spray paint are two commonly used materials by the artist. McCarthy is a member of the Mission School, a movement that emerged in the 1990s in the Mission District of San Francisco. The movement encompasses a group of artists who take their inspiration from urban culture of the Mission District, graffiti and street art. The movement is according associated with the use of non-traditional artistic materials and found objects. McCarthy received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994 and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007.

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1.JOHANNA ARNOLD 2. MIGUEL ARZABE 3. JOHN BANKSTON 4. MARK BAUGH-SASAKI 5. JD BELTRAN 6. KIM BENNETT 7. LEO BERSAMINA 8. LISA K. BLATT

9. LUKAZA BRANFMAN-VERISSIMO 10. VAL BRITTON 11. ETHAN CAFLISCH 12. CRAIG CALDERWOOD 13. CRAIG CALDERWOOD 14. TAMMY RAE CARLAND 15. COURTNEY CERRUTI 16. JEFFREY CHEUNG 17. TAKMING CHUANG 18. HOLLY COLEY 19. RICHARD COLMAN 20. MARY FERNANDO CONRAD 21. AMANDA CURRERI 22. ALI DADGAR 23. DEMART DENARO 24. GENE DOMINIQUE 25. CHRIS DUNCAN 26. RICKI DWYER 27. ALICIA ESCOTT 28. RODNEY EWING 29. DAVID FULLARTON 30. RENÉE GERTLER 31. ALEXANDER KORI GIRARD 33. REBEKAH GOLDSTEIN 34. MATT GONZALEZ SOEX.ORG/AUCTION

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JOHNNA ARNOLD Texas Crude Resist #7 2021, Texas crude oil, rag paper 26 3/4” x 30 1/2” Courtesy of the Artist and Sarah Shepard Gallery Retail Value: $4,000 Starting Bid: $1,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION As I place small amounts of crude oil on water, the shapes within these images grow organically. Oil is a transformation of life; what was once small organisms living in the ocean has now transformed our society. This combustive substance resists merging with water, determinedly maintaining its separate form. I drop a sheet of paper on the surface, and the forms within the oil solidify.

ARTIST’S BIO Johnna Arnold is an artist, photographer, educator and urban farmer based in Oakland, CA. Her work examines the interconnections between human beings, the environments we build, and the ways these systems affect our lives. From Inside This Earth (FITE) examines the transformative material known as petroleum through photography and printmaking. Johnna has worked as an Artist-in-Residence at Banff Center for the Arts, Kala Art Institute, the Vermont Studio Center, and RayKo Photography.

She has exhibited at the Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco Camerawork, the Oakland International Airport, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. She has created public projects sponsored by the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and the Oakland Museum of California. Johnna has taught photography-based classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the University of San Francisco.

Johnna received her BA in Photography from Bard College in 1996, and her MFA from Mills College in 2005.

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MIGUEL ARZABE Untitled 2020, Woven acrylic on Yupo 12” x 9” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,800 Starting Bid: $750

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION I have been weaving with paper for 9 years. The source material comes from printed matter related to cultural production. In this piece I am weaving my own acrylic on Yupo paintings, as a study for a large commission.

ARTIST’S BIO Arzabe lives in Oakland and is a charter studio member at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco.

Arzabe’s work has been featured in such festivals as Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal), and the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale (Gongju, South Korea); and in museums and galleries including MAC Lyon (France), MARS Milan (Italy), RM Projects (Auckland), FIFI Projects (Mexico City), Marylhurst University (Oregon), Berkeley Art Museum, Albuquerque Museum of Art, the de Young Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has held many residencies including Facebook AIR, Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, and Santa Fe Art Institute. He holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS from Arizona State University, and an MFA from UC Berkeley.

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JOHN BANKSTON Big Cat 2020, Oil stick and oil on Arches oil paper on panel 20” x 16” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Retail Value: $5,000 Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This was the first piece I did after the COVID lockdown last year. I was working at home and using home safe materials. I’d just received some new oil sticks, which are mostly pigment and oil with some wax, and used them with some richly pigmented oil paint that I’d also recently received. I remember the image coming to mind in thinking about safety. Is the man safe with the big cat? As an African American man, feeling safe either from violence or COVID was a big concern.

ARTIST’S BIO John Bankston lives and works in San Francisco, and has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. In addition to solo exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the de Young Museum in San Francisco, he has participated in many significant group shows, including Freestyle (Studio Museum in Harlem); Thirty Americans (Rubell Family Collection, Miami); and Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol (Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh). Among his numerous awards are a SECA Award from SFMOMA, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, an Artadia grant and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. His works are represented in a number of major collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the de Young Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Studio Museum; the University of California Berkeley Art Museum; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum (Cornell University); and the Rubell Family Collection. Bankston was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and received his M.F.A. in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his A.B. from the University of Chicago. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

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MARK BAUGH-SASAKI Fragments (Sugar Pine Tree) 2015, Smoke on paper 21.5” x 21.5” Courtesy of the Artistand re.Riddle Retail Value: $1,800 Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My work explores our connection to place, in particular to landscape. I question the terms “nature” and “natural” and in doing so challenge the viewer to rethink their role in their surroundings. This work uses the remains of a decomposed tree found in the sierras in combination with smoke (a biproduct of my sculptural practice) to create a work that abstracts the material’s previous form into an etherial or cosmic work. I am drawn to using smoke because of it relationship to fire, which is both a transformative and destructive force, as well as, in recent years, a symptom of the changing global climate. This work represents my connection to a shifting landscape. This piece was made while in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.

ARTIST’S BIO Mark Baugh-Sasaki was born and raised in San Francisco. In 2000 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to attended Carnegie Mellon University. His stay in Pittsburgh completely transformed him as an artist and as a person. The relationship that he saw unfolding before him between the natural and industrial became a cornerstone for the development of his use of reclaimed wood, found stone, steel, and cast metal. Upon returning to San Francisco he has continued his investigations and observations surrounding the intersection of the natural and human-made and his practice as a sculptor and installation artist. Baugh-Sasaki received his MFA from Stanford in 2017. He has exhibited work in numerous galleries and public spaces, including Black & White Projects, SOMArts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Oakland’s Krowswork Gallery. Recent public projects include installations at USF and Hayes Valley’s Patricia’s Green.

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JD BELTRAN Scissors 2006, Cibachrome photograph mounted on aluminum 40” x 16” x 3/4” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,400 Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My artistic practice explores the contexts of how materials-paint, photography, text, sculpture, film and moving image, and sound, for example-can all tell stories in different ways, indeed, simply because of their materiality. My work has always sought to explore the nuances and quirks of a material’s “language.”

ARTIST’S BIO JD Beltran is an artist, filmmaker, and writer/journalist whose award-winning work has been screened and exhibited internationally including at the Walker Art Center, the SFMOMA, the Getty Institute, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the MIT Media Lab, and the Kitchen NYC. She has been commissioned for public art projects worldwide, including in San Francisco, St. Petersburg, Russia, and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Her artwork was awarded the Public Art Network award as one of the most outstanding public artworks in the United States. She’s achieved grants from Artadia, the Workshop Residence, San Francisco Arts Commission, Stochastic Labs, ARS Electronica, and a Creative Capital/ Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Fellowship, and residencies at Skowhegan, the Pilchuck School, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Stochastic Labs, and the Lucas Artists Residency at Montalvo Arts Center. She has served as a Commissioner on the San Francisco Arts Commission since 2009, and was appointed as its President for 8 years, from 2011 to 2018. Beltran founded the non-profit Center for Creative Sustainability, which cultivates and implements groundbreaking creative collaborations, projects, initiatives, and legislation towards sustainability in the arts, the environment, and our society.

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KIM BENNETT Yellow Vise Split 2019, Watercolor on paper 13” x 9” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $800 Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Yellow Vise Split is part of the series called Tiger Wave Splits. These watercolors on paper combine a series of visions. The first vision was of a feather splitting into bowed shapes facing away from each other, which expressed an experience of a god or power who knows we are suffering and only makes a mocking and superficial effort to do anything about it. The second vision was a soothing procession of stripes of wavy lines that keep making themselves and wringing pain out with every new layer. So, these watercolors are improvised combinations of two images representing (to me) the fear that god is a sarcastic jerk who knows you are hurting but won’t help you, compared with the feeling of a caring, infinitely soothing presence. The combination of the images feels like a whole picture.

ARTIST’S BIO Kim Bennett has a B.F.A from the Cooper Union and an M.F.A. From California College of the Arts, where she is an Adjunct Professor. She has exhibited her work in the Bay Area at Stephen Wirtz Gallery, pied-à-terre and Interface Gallery, as well as Transmitter Gallery in New York and Conduit Gallery in Dallas. She is the recipient of a Creative Time commission, a Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, and a Kala Parent Artist Fellowship. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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LEO BERSAMINA Geometry VI 2018, Acrylic on board 13” x 13” Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery Anglim Trimble Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION A small polygon study based on shapes that I come into respond to when looking at natural forms from my walks in the Northern California.

ARTIST’S BIO Leo Bersamina was born in San Francisco, California and grew up surfing and fishing on the coast, just south of the city. Early on, Bersamina began studying art and design in Santa Cruz, California. Later he attended San Francisco State University to finish his BA with an emphasis in Studio Art. He received an MFA in Painting at Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Upon graduating Yale, Bersamina moved to New York City. He returned to California to teach Studio Art at UC Berkeley for two years.

Along with his studio practice, Bersamina has also taught Studio Art at Yale, Stanford, Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa Junior College, and Diablo Valley College (where he currently is a tenured instructor). Bersamina continues to exhibit nationally and internationally, and currently resides just north of San Francisco.

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LISA K. BLATT untitled (heatscape) 2012-2016, Archival digital photograph 8.5” x 10” Courtesy of the Artist and Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Lisa K. Blatt often works in extreme landscapes examining site, sight, pop culture and social and political issues. This “heatscape” was taken at one of the clearest lakes in the world (a ground zero site for climate change), in Chile, with a heat sensitive scientific camera. These “heatscapes” offer a different way of viewing landscapes presenting the Earth’s features as light defined by the Earth’s temperatures.

ARTIST’S BIO Lisa K. Blatt often works in extreme landscapes examining site, sight, pop culture and social and political issues. Blatt’s art has been exhibited internationally, including in the Shanghai Biennial, China, the Havana Biennial, Cuba, Museo de Tigre, Argentina, Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland (solo), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Contemporary Art Platform, London, Kunstverein Haus, Germany, Wexner Center, Asian Art Museum and Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, Bellingham National Museum, Santa Cruz Museum, Phillips Museum, DC, and Sean Kelly in New York. Cindy Sherman chose and wrote about Blatt, when asked which one photographer Sherman thought was doing groundbreaking work (Smithsonian Magazine (March 2012)). In 2018, Sandra S. Phillips, Photo Curator Emerita at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, nominated Blatt for both the MACK First Book Award (London) and the Gardner prize (Harvard). Her art is in public and private collections.

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LUKAZA BRANFMAN-VERISSIMO We are all speaking at the same time 2020, 7 color risograph book, coil bound, Edition size: 200 Published with Endless Editions, New York City, NY, 10” x 8” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $50 Starting Bid: $25

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION We are all speaking at the same time, is a seven colored risograph artist book that features a series of phrases, hopes, notes, sayings and demands, all hand written and transcribed by Lukaza BranfmanVerissimo. Sayings such as “BLACK DREAMS MATTER” and “THESE SIGNS ARE OUR SHIELDS”, spread across this 44 page coil bound book. Published with Endless Editions, New York City, NY, 2020 ARTIST’S BIO Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo (she/they) is a queer, Black artist, activist, educator, storyteller & curator who lives and works between Ohlone Land [Oakland, CA] and Powhatan Land [Richmond,VA]. BranfmanVerissimo’s work is informed by their commitment to craft and community, engagement with society, and interests in storytelling and cultural geography. Their work has been included in exhibitions and performances at EFA Project Space, New York; Leslie Lohman Museum for Gay & Lesbian Art, New York; SEPTEMBER Gallery, Hudson,NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; amongst others. They are currently getting their MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA and are curating a show at Southern Exposure in May 2021.

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VAL BRITTON Net #16

2019, Acrylic, ink, collage, and cut out paper 17 1/2” x 23” x 1 1/2” Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery Wendi Norris Retail Value: $3,500 Starting Bid: $1,400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Val Britton creates immersive, collaged works on paper and site-specific installations that explore physical and psychological spaces. Her fragmented, exploded landscapes draw on the language of maps to explore memory, history, and the possibilities of abstraction.

ARTIST’S BIO Val Britton creates immersive, collaged works on paper and site-specific installations that explore physical and psychological spaces. Her fragmented, exploded landscapes draw on the language of maps to explore memory, history, and the possibilities of abstraction. Britton was the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2010) and the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship (2015). She has exhibited at institutions including the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA; Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA; Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA, among others. Britton’s work is held in numerous public collections including the Arkansas Arts Center; Cleveland Clinic Fine Art Collection, OH; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; de Saisset Museum; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; National September 11 Memorial & Museum, NY; New York Historical Society; New York Public Library; and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others.

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ETHAN CAFLISCH Spending the Night in a Different Bed VI, 2017 2017, Quilted linen, canvas, and muslin, pine and brass brad frame 35” x 29” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This series is very comfortable. Growing up in the midwest, it was very common to see quilts hanging inside homes - most of which were made by older relatives and often made by necessity; needing warmth, having scraps, making do.

ARTIST’S BIO Caflisch was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and lives and works in London, England. He received his individualized BFA from California College of the Arts in 2015. His work has been shown recently at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland; Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales; ICA, San Jose; Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley; and Pt.2, Oakland.

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CRAIG CALDERWOOD Let The Wrong One In 2020, Color pencil, fibre tip pen, cotton paper 11” x 14” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Energy Vampires Aura readings are spindly, sharp, and piercing, Like a radiant Mosquito Proboscis.

I wanted to create a representation of my experiences with this kind of vampirism, in retail, in social space, and in intimacy.

ARTIST’S BIO A self-taught artist, Craig Calderwood’s intricate and decorative works are rendered through a personal vernacular of symbols and patterns. Recalling the private languages that underground communities of queer and trans people used for safety for decades, Calderwood develops these patterns and symbols though research into history, personal narratives, and pop cultural moments. They then arrange them into constellations to tell stories both personal and fantasized. Utilizing low-end materials like fabric paint, polymer clay, found fabrics and fibre tip pens, Calderwood explores ideas around desire, biodiversity, and otherness. They also look at how material practice forms its own language for safe and coded communication within hostile environments. Calderwood has shown at Minnesota Street Projects; SOMArts; and the Oakland Museum of California, Their gallery affiliations include Unspeakable Projects in Manhattan, NY and Black and White Projects in San Francisco. Their work has been featured in publications such as Juxtapoz and KQED Arts.

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CRAIG CALDERWOOD Fake Witch 2019, Pen on cotton paper 11” x 14” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION An Indiscriminate bundle of plants buried in a friends yard. Burrying sachets in the yards around the neighborhood. This drawing serves as a document of one of these spell casting events.

ARTIST’S BIO A self-taught artist, Craig Calderwood’s intricate and decorative works are rendered through a personal vernacular of symbols and patterns. Recalling the private languages that underground communities of queer and trans people used for safety for decades, Calderwood develops these patterns and symbols though research into history, personal narratives, and pop cultural moments. They then arrange them into constellations to tell stories both personal and fantasized. Utilizing low-end materials like fabric paint, polymer clay, found fabrics and fibre tip pens, Calderwood explores ideas around desire, biodiversity, and otherness. They also look at how material practice forms its own language for safe and coded communication within hostile environments. Calderwood has shown at Minnesota Street Projects; SOMArts; and the Oakland Museum of California, Their gallery affiliations include Unspeakable Projects in Manhattan, NY and Black and White Projects in San Francisco. Their work has been featured in publications such as Juxtapoz and KQED Arts.

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TAMMY RAE CARLAND Paper House 2008, Digital C-Print 11” x 14” Courtesy of the Artist and Jessica Silverman Retail Value: $3,500 Starting Bid: $1,250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This photograph comes from the series “An Archive of Feelings” which focused on what serves us when the love object goes missing and we attach ourselves to the thing, the fetish, the photograph, in order to fill the void, in order to mend the gap and not sit empty with ourselves, with our feelings.

The work is an homage or an archive, and leaves the viewer with an intense, sincere and uncomfortably emotional impression.

ARTIST’S BIO Tammy Rae Carland (b. 1965) is an artist who works with photography, video, and small-run publications.

She received her MFA from the University California, Irvine in 1994 and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1995. Carland’s work has been screened and exhibited in public institutions and biennales in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin and Sydney. Carland was a key member of the Riot Grrrl movement in the ‘90s and a co-owner of the independent lesbian music label Mr. Lady Records and Videos. Her photographs have been published in numerous books, including The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire and Lesbian Art in America. Her fanzine writing has been republished in A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World. Carland is Provost of California College of the Arts, and lives and works in Oakland, CA. 52

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COURTNEY CERRUTI Dude No 12 from the Dudes In Turbans series 2017, Watercolor on paper with accompanying publication 6” x 6” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $150 Starting Bid: $125

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION The Dudes in Turbans series was created in attempt to normalize images of men wearing turbans.

Instead of seeing men who wear turbans as foreign, other or even terrorist as our current culture does post 9-11. This project began as a way to shine a light on Sikh men and their religious and cultural practice of wearing a turban and became a more community based project in which I met, conversed with and painted many men who wanted to be included in the project. This painting is accompanied by a full color publication of the body of work.

ARTIST’S BIO Courtney is an artist, author, collaborator and shop owner. Her 5 books have been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish and Chinese. Courtney teaches workshops all over the country and online at Creativebug.com where she is Editor-In-Chief. Her work has been featured on Oh Happy Day, Design Sponge, the SF Chronicle, Instagram, The Jealous Curator and BuzzFeed among others. She makes something everyday and can be found on instagram as @ccerruti 54

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JEFFREY CHEUNG untitled 2020, Acrylic on canvas 30” x 24” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Jeff Cheung’s bright figurative work celebrates queerness within his personal life and within skate culture. He is a prolific maker, whose vivacious art examines freedom, identity, and intersectionality, through bold color and intertwined characters. Cheung’s simplistic line-work of gender nonspecific bodies offers a clever yet loving response to the heteronormative male gaze creating a more inclusive and accessible entry point.

ARTIST’S BIO Jeff Cheung is a Bay Area based artist and the co-founder of Unity Press and Unity Skateboarding.

Cheung’s bright figurative work celebrates queerness within his personal life and within skate culture.

He is a prolific maker, whose vivacious art examines freedom, identity, and intersectionality, through bold color and intertwined characters. Cheung’s simplistic line-work of gender nonspecific bodies offers a clever yet loving response to the heteronormative male gaze creating a more inclusive and accessible entry point. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Cheung graduated form the University of California Santa Cruz and has since shown in a variety of shows throughout the Bay Area as well as Hashimoto Contemporary in New York City, Jeffrey Deitch Projects in Los Angeles, City Bird Gallery in Paris, France and V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark. In addition, Cheung has been a resident artist at the Bedford Stuyvesant Artist Residency, in Brooklyn, New York 56

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TAKMING CHUANG Not Forever, Framed (Example) 2021, Clay, plastic wrap, client’s photograph variable Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $600 Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION For this unique commission, Chuang will work with the buyer’s memory in the form of a printed photograph to be embedded within a custom-made, mutable, sculptural “frame” that will wrinkle, shrink, and harden over time. Made of wet clay encased within a plastic film, the frame will tighten its grasp around the memory and warp the image within. Rather than protecting the photograph, this frame will transform it into something else. This image is provided as an example.

ARTIST’S BIO Born in New York City, Takming Chuang is an artist and an educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His sculptures, photographs, prints, and installations are informed by the fleeting physical form of the body. Born in New York City, Chuang currently lives in San Francisco. He received his MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Economics from the State University of New York, Binghamton. Chuang was an Affilate Artist and Graduate Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts and he presently serves on the Programming Committee at Right Window Gallery. His work is in the public collection of the Berkeley Art Museum.

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HOLLY COLEY New Classic Vase 2020, Glazed stoneware, painted with black clay and carved 7 1/2” x 5’’ x 3’’ Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $650 Starting Bid: $200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My New Classic is a body of work exploring ancient pottery forms adorned with carvings of ghosts, narwhals, sloths, and spiritmaids. These works reimagine traditional designs with my imaginary narratives.

ARTIST’S BIO Holly Coley is a painter turned potter. Coley’s work is inspired by Japanese art, ghosts, animals, and ancient art. She wants people who find her work to feel as if they have discovered a secret treasure, made just for them. Originally from southern California, San Francisco has been Coley’s home for 21 years. Her early life was spent playing with dirt, animals and growing food on a small farm in Yucaipa, CA. She now teaches art to people of all ages in SF public schools and art spaces. In the past Coley has helped put art back into public schools through art education non profits such as The San Francisco Art Education Project, Root Division, and Street Side Stories. Coley also owns a small ceramic studio in Bernal Heights called Pinckney Clay.

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RICHARD COLMAN Test print (unreleased edition) 2015 2015, Silk screen on paper 18” x 18” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION 10 color, hand-pulled silkscreen.

ARTIST’S BIO Born in 1976 in Maryland, Richard Colman lives and works in San Francisco, California. Richard Colman’s work is known for blending abstract and figurative imagery combined with bold geometry. Using symmetrical compositions with a discerning use of color Colman typically explores themes of human interaction, societal hierarchies, life and death. His work ranges from small to large scale painting, murals and installations and has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout the world.

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MARY FERNANDO CONRAD Peel Soil 2020, Oil on canvas 23” x 18” Courtesy of the Artist and N/A23 Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION In early covid, I worked remotely so what I saw changed. In some ways, this painting is just a landscape, the landscape which was in front of me. In other ways, it’s saying something about my values: we need to solve climate change. I think one solution has to do with how we farm and how what we eat comes to us. My practice is about packaging, glowy, humor and identity. The acquisition of experience.

The experience of acquisition. I served on the Board of Southern Exposure & I live and work in San Francisco.

ARTIST’S BIO Mary Fernando Conrad investigates social infrastructure through the use of vernacular materials such as neon signage, plastic and packaging. Recent shows include the solo shows Immaterial at Ictus Gallery, San Francisco, and Lapidary Terrarium at Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco. Group shows include In The Fullness of Time: 20th Anniversary Show at the Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco.

She also recently installed a sculpture as part of the Tenderloin National Forest/Luggage Store Annex where she had completed a residency in 2006. She received her Bachelors of Arts, cum laude in English Literature from Cornell University and a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University after attending the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Born in the United States, Conrad lived abroad for many years in France and Indonesia, as well as childhood in Sri Lanka.

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AMANDA CURRERI Lez Live 2018, Vintage magazine and book collage with thread, custom frame 11” x 14” Courtesy of the Artist and Romer Young Gallery Retail Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This collage combines pages from a vintage textiles book with clippings from back-issues of ‘On Our Backs’ magazine.

ARTIST’S BIO Amanda Curreri is an artist and educator. Her work is situated between textiles, sculpture, social practice, publishing, performance, and pedagogy. Curreri has recently exhibited at the Oakland Museum of California, Cincinnati Art Museum, Asian Art Museum (SF), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), Ortega y Gasset Projects (NY), and the Incheon Women’s Biennale, Korea. She is a recipient of an Alumni Traveling Scholars Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2017) to research textiles in Japan, a Pogue Wheeler Research Grant from DAAP to study textiles and architecture in Mexico, and a SF Guardian Goldie Award (2010). Curreri co-directs a small-run artists press, Special Collections Press, in partnership with the arts library at the University of Cincinnati. Curreri holds a MFA from the California College of the Arts, a BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a BA from Tufts University in Sociology and Peace & Justice Studies. Curreri’s work will be featured in an exhibition at Southern Exposure opening May 28th.

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ALI DADGAR NEW

2019, Acrylic on newspaper 21” x17” Courtesy of the Artist and Advocarty in Los Angeles Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $150

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Redacted front page of a New York Times. Part of a large series in an on-going project “Redactions and Additions”.

ARTIST’S BIO Iranian born Ali Dadgar, is a multi-disciplinary experimental artist working across image, text, object based media and performance. His last solo exhibition “Additions/Redaction”, opened in January 2020 at Desai Matta Gallery in San Francisco. Dadgar holds an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts. For the present time, he is enjoying a fruitful and inspired practice in isolation and poverty.

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DEMART DENARO Astral Mountain Medicine 2020, Sumi ink and pencil on paper 40” x 70” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION ‘Astral Mountain Medicine’ was part of a larger series titled “Hybrid Vigor and the Dreamlife of Coffee” hosted and shown in Oakland. This piece was motivated by the idea of a mono-culture crop - coffee with the coffee farmer at the bottom right corner dreaming of another life beyond the walls of abuse and earthly life.

ARTIST’S BIO Demart Denaro is a multi-disciplinary artist with a focus in tattooing, drawing, rock climbing, and education. He loves working and cultivating rich experiences with coffee, culture, energy, and movement. His work is driven by gratitude, joy, and curiosity. His work is influenced by his Japanese mother and Italian-American father, as well as his self-proclaimed Godfather, the infamous Reverend Sun Myung Moon. He ran an artist residency on a small coffee farm in Honduras for two years. Recent exhibitions include a solo project at Royal Coffee Tasting Room. He also loves Top-Ramen with an egg once in a while.

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GENE DOMINIQUE Nature’s Jewels 2020, Inkjet print 21” x 21” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Depictions of the scarab beetle have been popular since the times of ancient Egypt, when they were worn as good luck charms. I am drawn to their luminosity and iridescence, returning to them frequently as the subjects of photographs. I enjoy depicting one thing as another. In Nature’s Jewels scarab beetles present as jewelry.

ARTIST’S BIO Gene Dominique lives in Oakland. He earned a BA degree in photojournalism at San Jose State University and a law degree from UC Hastings College. He practiced law for thirty years. In 2015 Gene returned to his art practice full-time. Gene’s explorations in photography include a deep dive into a variety of genres including documentary, abstract, still-life and portraiture. He has exhibited around the Bay Area and internationally. Gene’s current work includes the documentary series, Still Here ‚Äì African American Farmers in the 21st Century, which is a study of the contemporary life of Black farmers. Volunteerism is an important part of Gene’s art practice. In 2016 he founded CameraAngels, a donation program that solicits used cameras and related gear for young people. In addition, Gene serves on the board of directors of San Francisco Camerawork. Gene says he frequently returns to a quote by the photojournalist Gordon Parks for inspiration: “You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.”

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CHRIS DUNCAN W.P. (6 Month Exposure) Oakland 2020, Acrylic and direct sunlight on fabric 13” x 11 1/4” Courtesy of the Artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents Retail Value: $2,200 Starting Bid: $880

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION In a process akin to a photogram, where a photographic image is made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material and exposing it to UV rays, Duncan layers and folds his base fabrics before placing them outdoors for six-month intervals, without the use of emulsion or chemical accelerant. Marking time by celestial cycle, Duncan distributes and harvests the fabrics on full moons, bookending the embedded light of the sun with the light of its lunar counterpart.

The shapes of the heavily painted interior mirrors the outline of items that are meaningful to the artist.

ARTIST’S BIO Chris Duncan is an Oakland based interdisciplinary artist. In both visual and sound based media, Duncan poses questions of time and its effects. His recent works are personal examinations of success and failure, cosmic correlation and the connectivity of existence. Outside of his studio practice Chris Duncan organizes events and runs a small artist book press and record label called LAND AND SEA with his wife Maria Otero. Duncan earned his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and his MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University. He has exhibited nationally and internationally for two decades and is included in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley CA; the Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis MO; the Museum of Modern Art, New York NY and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA. 74

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RICKI DWYER Untitled Pendants (severed fade) 2018, Hand-dyed cotton and wool 36” x 48” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION The work is a study of pattern and color amidst an experimental woven structure. My work often negotiates a gradient within the dye pattern to enhance the movement and fluidity inherent in cloth drapery. The color gradient jumps from pendant to pendant rather than through the entire cloth, linking threads visually that have been severed. This work is handwoven and hand dyed from cotton and wool. The textile pattern is a summer/winter weave allowing the ground cloth colors to inverse from front to back. The wool tufts were woven within the cloth as a floating warp, separated and felted to hold.

ARTIST’S BIO Ricki Dwyer is an artist and educator living in San Francisco, California. Ricki received their undergraduate degree from Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA from UC Berkeley. They have exhibited with Anglim Gilbert, Eleanor Harwood, Guerrero Gallery, and the Berkeley Art Museum. They have been artist in resident with Recology San Francisco, Jupiter Woods Gallery London, The Textile Arts Center New York, and The White Page Gallery Minneapolis. They have been recipient of the Eisner Prize, Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award, and the Queer Cultural Center’s Emerging Scholar Award. Ricki is currently teaching with California College of the Arts, and holding a studio fellowship with UC Berkeley.

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ALICIA ESCOTT

They say the bear swipes down. I learned later another way 2020, Ink on plastic construction sheeting 20” x 30” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION These drawings are used as props for installations and video. It is only after that they are retired under glass and donated to auctions. This piece has had an early retirement after only being shown once in a site-specific installation at Berkley Art Center that can be seen in the catalogue Experiments in the Field. This work is part of an ongoing dialogue with the ghost of the California Grizzly Bear and drawn on plastic sheeting used to cover buildings under construction referencing the building boom of the bay area’s latest goldrush- fueled by technologies still based earth metals. The paw drawings reference the goldrush era taste for the delicacy eaten while the rest of the animal was rendered for lamp oil during the time when they were hunted to extinction. Installed, the paw was reaching toward acorn branches, apple ear buds, and a bit of gold. The title references the market term bear market, which in turn references the bear and bull fights of the early colonized American west ARTIST’S BIO Alicia Escott’s work has been shown in over 90 art institutions, museums, galleries and alternative spaces including Berkeley Art Center, The Headlands, Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art, her work has been written about in The SF Chronicle, Momus, and many more. She has been Artist in Residence at The Growlery, Recology SF, Irving Street Projects, Djerassi, Anderson Ranch and The JB Blunk residency. Escott is a founding member of 100 Days Action who were recipients of the 2017 YBCA 100 List Award and is half of the Social-Practice Project The Bureau of Linguistical Reality featured in The Economist, The New Yorker, The SF Chronicle, KQED and many others. Escott’s work is informed by science and the examination and undoing of cultural narratives. She is interested in how we each negotiate our day-to-day realities and responsibilities amid an awareness of the overarching specter of the climate crisis, mass-extinction, the subsequent (individual and collective) experience of loss, heartbreak and longing- and the related social and political unrest they produce. She approaches these issues with an interstitial practice that encompasses writing, drawing, painting, photography, video, sculpture, social-practice and activism; tailoring medium to issue.

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RODNEY EWING Haints#2

2016, Silkscreen on glass and wood window 38” x 28” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Euqinom Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION The work was created for an exhibit called “Untethered- stories of the Fillmore” The concept was to explore the history of displacement that occurred in that neighborhood.

ARTIST’S BIO Rodney Ewing’s drawings, installations, and mixed media works focus on his need to intersect body and place, memory and fact to re-examine human histories, cultural conditions, and events. With his work he is pursuing a narrative that requires us to be present and intimate. His work has been exhibited at SFMOMA, Museum of African Diaspora, CA, and The Drawing Center, New York, NY. Locally he has exhibited at Root Division, Jack Fischer Gallery, Nancy Toomey Fine Art, and Euqinom Gallery. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Recology and the De Young Museum of Fine Arts both in San Francisco, as well as Djerassi in Woodside, California, Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, California, and Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, Nebraska. Ewing received his BFA in Printmaking from Louisiana State University and his MFA in Printmaking West Virginia University.

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DAVID FULLARTON The Dependant 2019, Mixed media on board, mounted onto wood 17” x 10” Courtesy of the Artist and The Compound Gallery, Oakland CA. Retail Value: $600 Starting Bid: $200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This is a graphite and mixed media drawing by Scottish born, San Francisco based artist David Fullarton.

Like many of his works it combines image with text and uses humor to explore contemporary neuroses and the often-overlooked minutiae of daily existence. Fullarton’s drawings function as small vignettes, and feature a forlorn cast of misfits and reprobates who often find themselves in compromising situations.

ARTIST’S BIO David Fullarton is a Scottish born, San Francisco based visual artist specializing in mixed media works that combine images with text. He finds inspiration in the often overlooked minutiae of daily existence and the ways people manage to eke joy and meaning out of the mundane. His drawings function as small vignettes, featuring a forlorn cast of misfits and reprobates who often find themselves in compromising situations. He is represented by The Compound Gallery in Oakland.

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RENÉE GERTLER Kinevan RD., Canyon Bell 2020, Ink and color pencil 20” x 30” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION When I draw I imagine I am creating a diagram, combining past memories of my home town Santa Barbara, California and sound vibrations of that place. This drawing represents Kinevan Road, located in the mountains of Santa Barbara. I employ traditional drafting techniques gleaned from my studies of Landscape Archictecture.

ARTIST’S BIO Renée Gertler holds a BFA and MFA in Sculpture from The California College of Arts. She studied landscape architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate Studies of Design. Her sculptures and installations have been exhibited at the Headlands Center for The Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Di Rosa Preserve, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, New Langton Arts, Spaces Gallery, Southern Exposure, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, and Romer Young Gallery.

She has been awarded the Anthony and Cadogan Fellowship, a Danish Arts Council Grant and artist residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts/ Industry program, Spaces, Cleveland Ohio, Vermont Studio Center, Pilchuck School of Glass Emerging Artists Fellowship, The Macdowell Colony and Kala Art Institute.

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ALEXANDER KORI GIRARD Three serpents 2020, Watercolor on watercolor paper 7” x 5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Watercolor on paper ARTIST’S BIO Alexander Kori Girard is an artist living and working in Berkeley, CA. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City with degrees in graphic design and illustration in 2001. Girard is the grandson of Alexander Girard and has produced a retrospective book on his grandfather’s work with Todd Oldham. Girard has shown work in solo and group shows at Triple Base, San Francisco, CA; Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA; and others. He was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany foundation grant in 2013.

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REBEKAH GOLDSTEIN Untitled 2018, Watercolor on paper 15” x 11” Courtesy of the Artist and CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions Retail Value: $2,100 Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Rebekah Goldstein makes paintings and sculptures that depict imagined structures and spaces.

Goldstein also makes three dimensional paintings or “objects” that related to the paintings while providing a corporeal counterpoint to the limitless possibilities of abstraction on the canvas. While the shapes in her paintings can defy the physical laws of gravity by offering multiple and competing perspectives, the sculptures are inherently bound to gravity, illuminating the limitations and possibilities of both painting and sculpture.

ARTIST’S BIO Goldstein received an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2012, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004. She has recently had solo exhibitions at CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions (San Francisco), Jack Geary Contemporary (New York) and 100% Gallery (San Francisco). Her work has been shown widely across the Bay Area including at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, City Limits, George Lawson Gallery, Pro Arts, and Berkeley Arts Center. She has been awarded residencies at the Sam and Adele Golden Center for the Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Arad Arts Project. Her work is part of the permanent collection of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Nordstrom, and the McEvoy Foundation for Art, as well as many notable private collections throughout the Bay Area.

She is represented by CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions.

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MATT GONZALEZ [untitled] 2021, Found paper collage 14” x 11” Courtesy of the Artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION I work primarily with found paper I find on the street or sidewalk. My recent work has focused on monochromatic colors. I am heavily indebted to early 20th Century collage innovator Kurt Schwitters.

ARTIST’S BIO Matt Gonzalez makes work from found paper he finds on the street or sidewalk. His recent work has focused on monochromatic colors. He is heavily indebted to early 20th Century collage innovator Kurt Schwitters. Since 2014 he has been represented by Dolby Chadwick Gallery. He is a native of McAllen, Texas and received his BA from Columbia University in New York City. Gonzalez’s exhibitions have been reviewed in Art LTD: West Coast Art + Design, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, NY Arts Magazine, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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35. REA LYNN DE GUZMAN 36. DIANE ANDREWS HALL 37. MICHAEL HALL 38. KRISTIE HANSEN 39. JAMIL HELLU 40. TARANEH HEMAMI 41. DANA HEMENWAY 42. CLIFF HENGST 43. SCOTT HEWICKER 44. LONNIE HOLLEY 45. TANYA HOLLIS 46. SARAH HOTCHKISS 47. CARRIE HOTT 48. TANIA JADE HOUTZAGER 49. SEAN HOWE 51. COLTER JACOBSEN 53. CHRIS JOHANSON 55. EIRIK JOHNSON 56. DAVID KASPRZAK 57. DAVID KASPRZAK 58. DAVID KASPRZAK 59. BESSMA KHALAF 60. SAHAR KHOURY 61. MARY ANNE KLUTH 63. KRIS LANG 64. NOAH P. LANG 65. EVIE LEDER 66. CHARLIE LEESE 67. JASON LEGGIERE 69. SARAH LOOMIS 70. KIJA LUCAS 71. NATHAN LYNCH 72. WHITNEY LYNN 140. DHARMA STRASSER MACCOLL SOEX.ORG/AUCTION

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REA LYNN DE GUZMAN Creased 2016, Image transfer and monoprint on paper mounted on panel 16” x 12” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $600 Starting Bid: $200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My work explores psychological and socio-political themes surrounding liminal identity, cultural assimilation, and the Filipinx diaspora, tempered by my experience as a Filipina immigrant living in the United States. In this vein, I examine oxymoronic concepts of assimilation and repudiation, reductive and additive, permanence and temporality, and the complicit relationship between colonizer and colonized. My “Retaso” (Fabric Remnants) series navigates through the colonial history of the piña fiber in the Philippines and its relationship with the idea of “Maria Clara” - the Maria Clara-esque ideals of beauty and status, accompanied by stereotypes of chastity, demureness, light skin, passivity, and subordination. Popular Philippine concepts regarding beauty and status center on the normalization of skin-whitening products and championing of imported goods. My work presents and challenges the unbalanced power structure resulting from the inferiorization of native ideals by the colonizer, and its lasting impression of colonial mentality. Through the process of repetitive layering and a palette evoking skin tones, I utilize the tactility of specific materials such as image transfers on piña fiber and synthetic organza to extract and repudiate these imposed ideals and stereotypes - material remnants intertwined with cultural legacies.

ARTIST’S BIO Rea Lynn de Guzman is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist. Born in Manila, Philippines, she immigrated to the US at age 14. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited work throughout the US and internationally. She was Kearny Street Workshop’s Featured Artist in 2017. In 2019-2020, she curated “Wander Woman” and “Wander Woman 2,” highlighting Bay Area women artists of color. She has been featured in the Asian Journal Magazine, Hella Pinay, KQED Arts, and SF Chronicle, among other publications.

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DIANE ANDREWS HALL Hummingbird with Blue Dot on Bach 2021, Gouache on sheet music 12” x 9” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This drawing is gouache on a sheet music selection of a Bach Goldberg Variation, one of which I often play. The hummingbird is a Anna’s Hummingbird who visited my garden and was interested in the nectar of the yellow Tiger Lily. The blue dot is a like a musical notation or unexpected note in the composition. All combined, reference the transience of all things.

ARTIST’S BIO Diane Andrews Hall was born in Dallas, Texas in 1945 and lives in San Francisco, California. She studied art at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans and received her M.F.A. from the Hoffberger School of Painting at The Maryland Institute of Art. For over two decades she has been featured in more than two dozen solo and group exhibitions, primarily in New York and California. During the 1970s, Hall was a part of T.R.Uthco, a multi-media performance art collective based in San Francisco.

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MICHAEL HALL For JB

2020, Watercolor on paper stretched over pane 12” x 9” Courtesy of the Artist and Catherine Clark Gallery Retail Value: $2,200 Starting Bid: $900

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION In his series of watercolors “Belongings,” Michael Hall writes that “the scale and immediacy of this series stems from making work as a new father. Working with watercolors allows me to paint in limited windows of time in spaces I share with my family. Through the series I paint personal objects that hold significance for me that I want to share with my son one day. It is important to me that they be painted to scale and carefully observed. I see this series not just as a sharing of what has been meaningful to me but as an opportunity to question and rediscover ideas embodied in these objects alongside my son, and to create a space for future conversations and continued development about them and how they have helped shape my life.” This particular work, of course, references John Baldessari and is based on a postcard that Michael hangs in his studio.

ARTIST’S BIO Michael Hall responds to his family’s military heritage in his practice, producing paintings and participatory works that address complex interrelationships, systematized aesthetics and the tenuous space between control and protection. Hall has exhibited in multiple venues including the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Southern Exposure, the Richmond Art Center, the Palo Alto Arts Center and the Headlands Center for the Arts. He is the recipient of several awards and residencies including a 2008 Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Fellowship, a 2015 Lucas Artist Residency Fellowship at Montalvo Arts Center, and a 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist in Residence Fellowship at the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans. Hall’s work has also been featured in publications such as New American Painting, the San Francisco Chronicle and KQED Arts online. In 2016, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting at the California State University East Bay. Hall lives and works in Oakland.

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KRISTIE HANSEN Fixated 004 2020, Leather, glass, fabric, and thread 6” x 4” x 6” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Fixated is comprised of the back pockets of leather pants that I wore throughout the 90s, a thrift store necklace, and stuffed with a dress handed down to me from my mom. Working with these unwanted objects of natural origin, I strived to create a unique form relating to connection with loved ones and the world around us. With intention and yearning for closeness, it was jammed full of hope, compassion, emotion, and respect for community.

ARTIST’S BIO Kristie Hansen is a self-taught San Francisco-based conceptual artist working primarily in sculpture.

Inspiration comes from years of shopping for second-hand fashion, transforming vintage clothing into assemblage objects. Unwanted commodities are manipulated to transform them into evocative works that raise questions about the environment, consumerism, community, beauty, and the world around us. Hansen has been exhibiting her work in traditional and non-traditional art spaces up and down the California coast since 2011, including Don Soker Contemporary Art, Summer School, Queens Nails Projects, MAC and Maison Margiela. Her work has also been included in numerous group shows at Southern Exposure, Ratio 3, and Berkeley Art Center. In 2016, she had a residency with local clothing designers, N.I.C.E. Collective and she consistently donates artwork to SF Skate Club for their fundraiser.

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JAMIL HELLU Hues: Stevie

2018, Digital pigment print on HahnemuÃàhle Fine Art archival paper 20 “ x13 3/8” Courtesy of the Artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION “As a queer kid raised in Minnesota, Stevie Sokolouski (they/them) found solace in playing the cello.

Music and fashion were instrumental in the exploration of their queer identity from a young age.

Over the years, my practice has juxtaposed a personal exploration of my own visibility as an immigrant and a deeply focused motivation to collaborate with members of the LGBTQ+ communities to activate a contemporary dialogue about the implications of cultural lineage and discrimination on queer histories. This portrait is part of an ongoing project entitled “Hues,” in which I invite members of the expanding queer community to collaborate with me in developing a form of participatory portraiture that explores cultural identity and heritage. By inserting myself into the photograph, I am invested in activating a dialogue about what happens when the photographer leaves the space behind the camera to join his subjects in front of the lens, when the discussion is no longer about the “”other”” but it is about us.”

ARTIST’S BIO Jamil Hellu is a visual artist whose work focuses on themes of identity representation and cultural heritage, addressing intersections between race, gender, and sexuality. Navigating from a personal lens, his practice weaves together photographic imagery, video, and installation to amplify queer histories and challenge the social construct of masculinity.

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TARANEH HEMAMI Sanctuary II 2021, Mixed media with encaustic, soil, glass, gold, silver and aluminum foil 8” x 8” Courtesy of the Artist and Ag Galerie, Tehran Retail Value: $3,200 Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION In Sanctuary, the central shape amidst an archive of past conceptual groundings is created by simple crossings of two squares, alluding to a physical manifestation of a full cycle of breath to reach an inner sanctuary. Building and deconstructing in a continuum cycle, excavations from layers of the past reveal unexpected narratives of time. Its surface covered entirely with gold, silver and aluminum foils, Sanctuary shines with movement, as if lit from its inner core.

ARTIST’S BIO Taraneh Hemami works with materials of history, organizing archives of images, data, and information to weave complementary and contradictory narratives made manifest in objects and installations. She explores themes of displacement, preservation and representation in her collective and curatorial projects, creating experimental projects in collaborative projects with artists, writers and scholars.

Hemami has exhibited widely including at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, The Lab, Birmingham Museum, Boghossian Foundation, and at the Sharjah Biennial. She has received many awards for her projects from the Creative Capital, Creative Work Fund, Center for Cultural Innovation, California Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, Zellerbach Foundation, and Kala Art Institute. Her works are in the collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as public art collections across the Bay Area.

She teaches at California College of the Arts, and proudly serves on SoEx’s Board.

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DANA HEMENWAY Untitled (extension cords - two pink) 2021, Wood, extension cords, lights, paint 36” x 6” x 3” Courtesy of the Artist and Eleanor Harwood Gallery Retail Value: $700 Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Dana Hemenway’s work is rooted in the excavation and elevation of utilitarian objects to make visible what has become habituated in our built environments. Hemenway uses these functional items as materials to form traditionally fiber-based crafts –– lights and cords are woven through ceramics or the gallery wall, extension cords are transformed into macramé chains.

ARTIST’S BIO Dana Hemenway is an artist, curator, and educator based in San Francisco. Hemenway has had residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), ACRE (Stueben, WI), SÍM (Reykjavik, Iceland), and The Wassaic Project (Upstate New York). Dana is the recipient of The San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant and a Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure Grant. She just completed a public art commission for SFO’s Terminal 1, which opened in May of 2020. Dana has exhibited her artwork locally, nationally, and internationally. From 2015 – 2017, Dana served as a codirector of Royal Nonesuch Gallery, an artist-run project space in Oakland, CA. She is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery.

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CLIFF HENGST Untitled

2021, Watercolor on paper 10” x 8” Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery 16 Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $350

ARTIST’S BIO Cliff Hengst is an artist and performer, with a BFA from SFAI and current teaching position in the SFAI grad program. Hengst’s one-man play, “Mr. Akita” was recently performed at the Berkeley Art Museum as part of their Matrix program. He has exhibited his work at SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, The San Francisco Arts Commission and Gallery 16 in San Francisco. Hengst has performed and exhibited at Hauser & Wirth, Machine Project in Los Angeles and The Tang Museum at Skidmore College in New York, and most recently at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

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SCOTT HEWICKER The Way A Drunk Looks 2013, Acrylic paint and tape on canvas 10” x 8” Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery 16 Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $350

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This painting is from my Thoughtforms series, where I collaborated with writers Robert Gluck and Kevin Killian to create titles for modern versions of clairvoyant paintings inspired by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbetter’s 1905 Theosophical text. The Way A Drunk Looks was titled by Kevin Killian.

ARTIST’S BIO Scott Hewicker is an artist, writer and musician based in San Francisco. He has an MFA from Stanford University and has exhibited his work at Gallery 16, Jack Hanley Gallery, Deitch Projects NY, Galleri Christina Wilson in Copenhagen, ICA Philadelphia and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He recently co-curated the exhibit Hauntology at the Berkeley Art Museum with Larry Rinder, and plays in the bands The Alps and Aero-Mic’d. Hewicker is also a columnist in residence for SFMOMA’s Open Space.

With Cliff Hengst, Hewicker co-edited and illustrated the book, Good Times, Bad Trips published by Gallery 16 editions in 2007.

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LONNIE HOLLEY After Spears and Spheres 2013, Color sugarlift aquatint 17.5” x 14” Courtesy of the Artist and James Fuentes (Donated by Paulson Fontaine Press) Retail Value: $800 Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Space Shuttles ARTIST’S BIO Lonnie Holley is an internationally renowned artist and performer whose three decade long career has encompassed drawing, painting, sculpture, and music. Holley’s paintings and found-object sculptures and environments are made of both natural and manmade elements. The densely constructed pieces reference current events and African American History and like his musical lyrics, refer to slavery, the church and universal ecology. Holley’s work is included in numerous museum collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the High Museum of Art, among others. He is represented by the James Fuentes Gallery, NY. 112

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TANYA HOLLIS Untitled

2020, Paper, acrylic paint and medium on board 12” x 12” x 1.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $600 Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This is one piece from a long series of decollages using found archival materials; this work was produced by pasting then partially removing newspapers largely from Oakland. The resulting fragments leave faint traces amidst painted absences, alluding to the systematic erasure and fragmentary nature of the historical record.

ARTIST’S BIO Tanya Hollis is a visual artist and archivist living and working in San Francisco. Hollis has shown work in a variety of spaces in the Bay Area, including Right Window Gallery, SF Cameraworks, and Little City Gardens. Hollis also serves as a curator at Right Window Gallery and was a founding member of Nonsite Collective.

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SARAH HOTCHKISS Ludo 2021, Gouache on panel 12” x 12” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Ludo’ is a gouache on panel painting inspired by the board game Ludo, a simpler version of the Indian game of Pachisi (known in the US as Parcheesi).

ARTIST’S BIO Sarah Hotchkiss is a San Francisco artist and arts writer. Recent exhibitions include the solo show ‘Sleuth’ at Friends Indeed, San Francisco; and group shows at Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco; and Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo Park. Her work has been featured in the San Francisco Arts Commission’s public art program and she has attended residencies at Skowhegan, ACRE and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2019 she received the Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation grant for arts journalism for her work as the senior associate editor of arts and culture at KQED, San Francisco’s NPR and PBS affiliate.

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CARRIE HOTT Our Little Mirrors 2021, Collage on paper 11” x 17” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $350

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Collage of images of miniature computers and laptops collected from images on the inernet.

ARTIST’S BIO Carrie Hott is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. She is invested in documenting and disentangling the technological systems that deeply shape our lives. She has presented her work as part of exhibitions and projects across the country, most recently at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Recology San Francisco, and the Museum of Capitalism in Oakland. She is the recipient of the Artadia Award, a Cultural Humanities grant, and has had residencies at Mills College and Headlands Center for the Arts. She currently teaches in USF’s Department of Art + Architecture and UC Berkeley’s department of Art Practice.

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TANIA JADE HOUTZAGER On the Float 2020, Plaster, graphite, digital print on acrylic, wood 22” x 29.25” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,100 Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This piece is part of a body of work produced between 2017 and 2020 that reflects on the climate crisis through the lens of images I took in Antarctica. The work is an attempt to reconcile the harsh realities of the dissolving landscape I experienced in person with the idyllic images I captured there and brought home.

ARTIST’S BIO Tania Jade Houtzager is a San Francisco based artist whose work investigates landscape and the environment through sculptural intervention. Her process based practices use a language of material gestures to address notions of climate change, space and memory. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, New York, Los Angeles, and Venice, Italy among others, including solo exhibitions at the Marin Civic Center, Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture and Gallery Route One. She received a Masters in Design from the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand in 2012 and her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2017.

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SEAN HOWE 2019, Acrylic on panel 11” x 14” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $150

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Sometimes you have to crawl around and turn over rocks or leaves to find Salamanders. Other times they will walk right past you. This piece required the first approach, only through painting. Salamander can be installed in 4 different orientations, I happen to like the one in the shared image, but the other orientations work just fine. The shapes and colors are inspired by those I see lying on the forest’s floor or up in the sky.

ARTIST’S BIO Sean Howe is an artist drawn to animals, plants, objects, and fantastical worlds. He graduated from the University of Washington in 2007 with a BFA in ceramics and later worked for many art museums in Seattle and the Bay Area. His work has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions, including Bay Area Now 7 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2014, participating with Bay Area Art Workers Alliance. Sean is a recent MFA graduate and current lecturer at Stanford University. He lives and works in Oakland, California.

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COLTER JACOBSEN pull 2019, Collage 13” x 10 3/4” Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This is a collage that appeared in the 2019 Anglim Gilbert Gallery Exhibition “hour fault”. The title comes from the word on the piece of foil.

ARTIST’S BIO Colter Jacobsen (b. 1975) lives and works in San Francisco, CA. He earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001 and is a recipient of SFMoMA’s prestigious SECA Art Award (2010), which granted him a solo exhibition at the museum in 2011. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions, including: Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco (2019); Essays, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2018); This Is How We Walk on The Moon: Colter Jacobsen, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego La Jolla, California (2014); and more. Group exhibitions include Mythos, Psyche, Eros: Jess and California (2019), and A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions (2016‚Äì17), both at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA); People’s Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2014); and more. His work can be found in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and KADIST, both in San Francisco, California; The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California; and The Museum of Everything, London.

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CHRIS JOHANSON Untitled 2007, Etching 22” x 23” Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Etching ARTIST’S BIO California-native Chris Johanson is a key member of San Francisco’s Mission School. Johanson engages with the meditative qualities of art-making and sincere direct communication through painting and sculpture. Johanson’s work plays between the techniques of figuration and abstraction, as he sees these two modes of working as interconnected expressions of strong beliefs in environmentalism, compassion and peaceful co-existence. He has exhibited widely in museums and galleries internationally over the past decade. His work has been the subject of solo shows at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, New York (2014); the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Oregon (2014); LA MoCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, California (2013); and the Modern Institute in Glasgow, United Kingdom (2013). Johanson has been featured in important group exhibitions including Glasgow International 2012 and the 2002 Whitney Biennial. He is represented by Altman Siegel Galelry, Awesome Vistas, The Modern Institute, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Georg Kargl, Albert Baronian.

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EIRIK JOHNSON HER

2014, Archival pigment print, signed monograph, vinyl record and digital download 20” x 16” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION PINE is a photographic and music-based project that explores how the transgressive act of tree carving can conjure up sentiments of love, alienation, or even the most basic desire to declare, “I was here.

See for yourself”. It’s a gesture, both cruel and tender, intimate and with deliberate purpose. By slowly illuminating the carvings during long exposures at night using fire, moonlight, sparklers, and prismatic light, they begin to allude to dark aquatic ruins, a graffiti strewn dance hall, or the pigment drawings on a prehistoric cave wall. This piece includes a signed copy of the monograph and a vinyl record and digital download.

ARTIST’S BIO Eirik Johnson has exhibited his work at institutions including the Aperture Foundation, Henry Art Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

His monographs include Barrow Cabins (Ice Fog Press), PINE (Minor Matters), Sawdust Mountain (Aperture), and BORDERLANDS (Twin Palms). Johnson’s work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the International Center of Photography, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003. Johnson serves as the Programs Chair at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA. where he lives with his wife and two sons.

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DAVID KASPRZAK Untitled (Casa Luis Barragan, exterior) 2020, Watercolor on rag paper 5” x 7” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Watercolor painting made from photographs taken with visiting the Casa Luis Barragan in Mexico City ARTIST’S BIO David Kasprzak is an artist, curator, designer, and publisher based in San Francisco, CA. He holds an MA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. He has curated exhibitions and exhibited artwork in both national and international venues, including: The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium, the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, Berkeley Art Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, SFMOMA, and the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (EKKM). He was an artist in residence at Iaspis in Stockholm, Sweden, and The Headlands Center for the Arts.

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DAVID KASPRZAK Untitled (Casa Luis Barragan, interior) 2020, Watercolor on rag paper 5” x 7” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Watercolor painting made from photographs taken with visiting the Casa Luis Barragan in Mexico City ARTIST’S BIO David Kasprzak is an artist, curator, designer, and publisher based in San Francisco, CA. He holds an MA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. He has curated exhibitions and exhibited artwork in both national and international venues, including: The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium, the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, Berkeley Art Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, SFMOMA, and the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (EKKM). He was an artist in residence at Iaspis in Stockholm, Sweden, and The Headlands Center for the Arts.

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DAVID KASPRZAK Untitled 2020, Watercolor on rag paper 5” x 7” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Watercolor painting made from photographs taken with visiting the Casa Luis Barragan in Mexico City ARTIST’S BIO David Kasprzak is an artist, curator, designer, and publisher based in San Francisco, CA. He holds an MA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. He has curated exhibitions and exhibited artwork in both national and international venues, including: The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium, the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, Berkeley Art Museum, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, SFMOMA, and the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (EKKM). He was an artist in residence at Iaspis in Stockholm, Sweden, and The Headlands Center for the Arts.

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BESSMA KHALAF (Knock-Out) Projections Landscape #11 2008, Archival pigment print 16” x 20” Courtesy of the Artist and Romer Young Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $$400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This is a print from (Knock-out) projections which is a 6 minute video loop of me punching through a number of landscapes. The print was shot as a photograph during the filming.

ARTIST’S BIO Bessma Khalaf (born 1978 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California.

She utilizes Photography, video, sculpture and performance to explore the boundaries of landscape, place, and image. While employing processes of degradation such as (burning, smashing, shattering, melting, defacing, eating, regurgitating, etc.)

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SAHAR KHOURY Untitled (teal head holder) 2019, Glazed ceramic 11” x 10 1/2” x 4 3/4” Courtesy of the Artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents Retail Value: $3,500 Starting Bid: $1,400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This piece is a ceramic replica of a soft cloth pillow, frequently used for comfort during air travel.

ARTIST’S BIO An Oakland CA based multi-media sculptor, Sahar Khoury consistently infuses her practice with a larger social dialogue. Whether visible ‚Äì the utilization of found or recycled objects to create recognizable cultural reference points; or discreet ‚Äì the layering in of personal mementos, indistinguishable notations of time and place; Khoury’s works absorb the histories embedded in their discarded materials and reinvents them with new potential. Khoury received her BA in Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz in 1996 and her MFA From UC Berkeley in 2013. She was the recipient of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2019 biannual SECA Art Award and the 2018 Triennial Exhibition, Bay Area Now 8 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Khoury’s work has been exhibited at SFMOMA, YBCA, Oakland Museum of California, The Wattis Institute, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Rebecca Camacho (SF) and CANADA (NY). Khoury’s work has been written about in the New Yorker, Art Review, and Hyperallergic.

Khoury was also a recipient of the 2019 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Art Award.

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MARY ANNE KLUTH Old Faithful 2021, Archival photo collage 7” x 10” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Mary Anne Kluth is interested in landscape as metaphor in contemporary culture and art history.

Working from her own obsessive archive of photos of fake theme park landscapes, and referring to Romantic paintings of the American West, Kluth’s collages, digital prints and installations allude to the prevalence of collective fantasy in national identity. She is interested in how scenic sets, dioramas, and other representations of natural spaces embody ideologies and myths that have shaped this country.

ARTIST’S BIO Mary Anne Kluth studied at UC Berkeley as an undergraduate, received her BFA from CCA(C), and obtained an MFA from SFAI. She has exhibited at such places as the Oakland Museum of California, the San Jose ICA, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center, as well as in galleries in CA, WA, NV, WI, Hong Kong, and Japan.

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KRIS LANG Spring Valley Schoolhouse Pie Safe Diorama 2021, Ultrachrome K3 Ink on Canson Fibre Rag Platine 19 1/2” x 23” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $900 Starting Bid: $350

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This work is from a series of improvisational abstract dioramas, made using both found elements and digital printing. I photograph elements of the environment I wish to manipulate, then generate patterns and repeats that get made into paper sculptures. Fragile, ephemeral, barely constructed, the final work is lit and photographed -- all the effects are in-camera.

ARTIST’S BIO Kris Lang makes abstract dioramas reveling in the intersection of sculpture, printmaking, digital imaging and traditional photography. Seeking that place where inscrutability tips over into resonance, she’s building and decorating new wings for her memory palace. Lang is a photographer and printmaker born in Colorado Springs, CO, and currently working in San Francisco. She received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1998. Her works on fabric, portraits in etched velvet, have been exhibited nationally. Locally her work has been shown at Kala Art Institute, The Alameda Art Center, and with GenArt. She is also an artist collaborator, teacher, and digital printmaker at Electric Works, San Francisco.

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NOAH P. LANG Earth and Moon

2021, Shadow box, the blackest commerically-availble paint, insect pins, asprin 7.5” x 5” x 3.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This is a little astronomically correct model of our plant and its satellite. I really though I’d make more artwork during lockdown, but you know, I didn’t But I am happy with this piece. If it sells, I’ll be super sorry to see it go. But those feelings will be melded with good feelings of it going out into the “world,” aka your home. Here’s the thing though. It’s super delicate, so I need to deliver it. So please don’t bid on it if you live outside of the Bay Area. Delivery is free!

ARTIST’S BIO 1967 VW Bus -> 1964 Fiat -> 1972 Plymouth Valiant -> 1966 VW Squareback -> 1979 Honda Civic -> 1972 Citro√´n DS21 -> 1978 Peugeot -> 1983 GMC Jimmy -> 1974 Plymouth Valiant -> 1990 Ford Ranger -> 1989 Ford Mustang -> 1979 Chevy Luv -> 1966 Buick Electra -> 2006 Honda Element -> 2006 Honda Odyssey -> 2019 Chrysler Pacifica 144

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EVIE LEDER Rini Circles 3

2018, Dye sublimation halftone photograph onto 20” aluminum circle 20” circle Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,300 Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION I started screen printing in 2017, and I’ve become entranced by the halftone process. It overlaps with my looking/seeing and alternate perception interests. In preparing these photographs, I am pushing the halftone to billboard size, obscuring all detail. The images become circles within circles and color overlapping color. Only with a great distance can you make out what the image is, if at all. I was thinking about making peace with my sister when I made these images of sunsets, goldfish and flowers. Simple joys. Each photograph has been printed through dye sublimation ‚Äì using heat to transfer dye directly onto aluminum. This method removes the necessity for glass over the works, making the colors and shapes seem more immediate, more magical.

ARTIST’S BIO Evie Leder was born in New Orleans in 1964. Leder’s work concerns itself with acts of looking and being seen and the power of the gaze. Their work focuses on recontextualizing gender and the socially agreed-upon constructs that hold up our gender and sexuality systems. Leder is a three-time winner of San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission, the recipient of the Princess Grace Award, a New York Expo of Short Film Jury Award, and a grant from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Leder is a member of “A Simple Collective” in San Francisco and a founding member of “the lesbianfilm collective”. Leder’s work has been shown internationally at film festivals and galleries including; Black and White Projects, The Kinsey Institute, The Sundance Channel, Tampere International Short Film Festival, Frameline, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, South By Southwest, New York Expo of Short Film and Video, The New Festival, Mix NY, Outfest LA, SOMArts Cultural Center, Euro Underground Film Festival and Art Matters, among many others.

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CHARLIE LEESE ex-place

2021, Aluminum, welded steel, paint 29” x 31” x 4” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,300 Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION In his latest work, ex-place, Sf based sculptor, Charlie Leese, macerates the dense space between “cynicism and idealism”* found at the edge of Global cities. He sees conspiracy theories, cults, and wellness fads as a result of compression offering a portal beyond race to the bottom politics. Subverting contemporary claustrophobic culture, Leese derives meaning and beauty by tracing the lineage of drapery from Bernini carved marble to snow chains hanging from the underbelly of an 18 wheeler while moving shipping containers from ports to Amazon distribution centers. *Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception ARTIST’S BIO Charlie Leese (b. Nebraska, 1985) holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design.

His sculptures employ enduring materials (cast bronze, welded steel, carved stone, etc.) to build forms that recall landscape and architectural models, allowing the viewer to consider shifts in scale relative to themselves. Leese has exhibited featured in numerous exhibitions including at Ratio 3, San Francisco; Alter Space, San Francisco; The Battery, San Francisco; and The Wurks, Providence, RI.

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JASON LEGGIERE I Have No Idea What’s Coming, 2015 2015, Acrylic on canvas 20” x 16” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My paintings, drawings and sculptures are experimental, intuitive and improvisational and search for poetic, lyrical and emotional results.

ARTIST’S BIO Jason Leggiere is a Bay Area-based visual artist. He grew up in the late eighties punk and alternative rock scene in Los Angeles before moving to San Francisco to study painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Leggiere was the director of a small contemporary art gallery called Quotidian for five years.

His work discusses human impulse and improvisation as natural occurrences in the observable universe.

Leggiere’s work has been featured in Fecal Face, Hi-Fructose Magazine, and previously exhibited at Minnesota Street Projects, Halsey McKay Gallery, Guerrero Gallery.

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SARAH LOOMIS just us 2020, Gouache and ink on wood 7.75” x 9.75” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $300 Starting Bid: $100

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION To me, working with wood tells a story. The lines in a tree can indicate its history and the events it endured, much like humans with the wrinkles and scars on our skin portraying a piece of ourselves and our life narrative. My work is often small and delicate, working in paintings, drawings, and mixed media shadow boxes. Through the depiction of trees, my work addresses concepts of wounds and healing, injustice and devastation, the delicacy of life and memory, and how these themes can exist both personally and collectively. Just like our own existence, each tiny detail in the trees creates a larger whole, just as precise and vital as the other.

ARTIST’S BIO Sarah Loomis is an interdisciplinary, visual artist working in small-scale paintings, drawings, mixed media shadow boxes, and installations to explore concepts of wounds and healing. Through the depiction of trees and human form, her work addresses issues of the delicacy of life and memory, injustice and devastation, and how these themes can exist both personally and collectively. Loomis’ work has been exhibited in various shows around the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest. A longtime resident of San Francisco, Loomis received a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. She has also studied at Parson’s School of Design in Paris and the Pont-Aven School of Art in Brittany, France. Additionally, she has interned at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA and is a regular volunteer for the non-profit arts organization, Southern Exposure. Presently, Loomis is a candidate for a MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

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KIJA LUCAS Cabbage White Butterfly 2 2015, Archival pigment print 20” x 16” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,600 Starting Bid: $650

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION A Cabbage White Butterfly found on my desk ARTIST’S BIO Kija Lucas is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She uses photography to explore ideas of home, heritage and inheritance. She is interested in how ideas are passed down and seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations. Her work has been exhibited at Oakland Museum of California, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, California Institute of Integral Studies, Palo Alto Arts Center, Intersection for the Arts, Mission Cultural Center, and Root Division, as well as Venice Arts in Los Angeles, CA, La Sala d’Ercole/Hercules Hall in Bologna Italy, and Casa Escorsa in Guadalajara, Mexico. Lucas has been an Artist in Residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts, Grin City Collective, and The Wassaic Artist Residency. She is a member of 3.9 Art Collective and the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure.

Lucas received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Mills College.

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NATHAN LYNCH The Fake Real 2017, Glazed ceramic 15” x 16” x 8.5” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Retail Value: $3,800 Starting Bid: $1,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This sculpture is part of a series of works about misdirection, obfuscation and multiple realities. The title is derived from a Dave Hickey essay about Las Vegas where he compares the veracity of the sunset to the omnipresent lights of Sin City. It was originally exhibited at Patricia Sweetow Gallery as part of the show Intimate Abstractions in 2017.

ARTIST’S BIO Nathan Lynch was raised in Pasco, WA, an agricultural community in the shadow of Hanford Nuclear Power Plant. The futility of this environmental contradiction gave Lynch an acute sense of location and deep appreciation for irony. His concerns for political conflict and environmental upheaval are filtered through notions of absurdity, hand fabrication and the dramatic devices of storytelling. As a sculptor and performance artist Lynch has made collaboration and experimentation major components of his practice. Lynch’s recent projects include The Same Larry, at A-B Projects, Doubledrink for Headlands Center for the Arts and Dead Reckoning for BAN7 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Lynch studied with Ken Price at the University of Southern California, and earned an MFA at Mills College with Ron Nagle. Lynch is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Ceramics and Glass Programs at California College of the Arts. He is represented by Rena Bransten Gallery.

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WHITNEY LYNN

I Know It When I See It or The Crossed Eyes of the Beholder 2020, Suite of 9 archival pigment prints in a custom clamshell case.

Includes on pair of paper anaglyph glasses.

8” x 10” each Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,250 Starting Bid: $900

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Suite of prints layers public domain images from the Rijksmuseum and Metropolitan Museum of Art with engravings reproduced from a copy of the 1797 edition of l’Histoire de Juliette, by the Marquis de Sade. Included with the prints is one pair of paper anaglyph glasses; when wearing the glasses, viewers can choose whether they see obscene illustrations or “classical” nudes by closing one eye or turning their head.

ARTIST’S BIO Whitney Lynn mines cultural and political histories to reframe familiar narratives and question dynamics of power. Recent solo presentations of her work include “The Siren” at Catharine Clark Gallery, “Sirens, Silencers, Mufflers and Mutes” at Bass & Reiner, and “Tools and Implements” at the de Young Museum.

Her latest public artwork, “Wine Dark See,” was recently installed in Seattle, and her videos “Fool” and “Act (Diogenes)” can be seen in San Francisco at the Walter & McBean Galleries as part of the “Spirit of Disruption” exhibition, through September 2021.

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DHARMA STRASSER MACCOLL Study for Salita II 2019, Gouache, ink, porcelain, thread on paper 15” x 15” Courtesy of the Artist and Traywick Contemporary Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION “Study for Salita” came from recent series inspried by an unexpected year the artist spent living in The Netherlands. The titles of each piece from the series reference specific places and a wide range of visual inspirations -- from rusted keys at a flea market in Portugal, to a large-scale installation of elaborate beaded necklaces at Maxxi, the modern art museum of Rome -- an homage to a year of wonder and wanderlust.

ARTIST’S BIO Dharma Strasser MacColl was born in the Bay Area, grew up in Portland and currently lives and works in Marin county. Throughout her career, MacColl has embraced materials-based approach to drawing and painting in three dimensions. In both her medium-defying works on paper and in her sculptures, MacColl strikes a thoughtful balance between the abstract and the referential as objects from real life morph into gestural patterns and tactile compositions. Her unique approach results in work that challenges the conventional definitions of the ceramic medium. MacColl received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1997. Her work is included in prominent private and public collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Berkeley Art Museum as well as Fidelity Investments, Linklater LLC and UCSF San Francisco.

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74. PHILLIP MAISEL 75. PABLO MANGA 76. MICHELLE MANSOUR 77. KARI MARBOE 78. VANESSA MARSH 79. PATRICK MARTINEZ 81. MICHAEL MCCONNELL 82. ANNE MCGUIRE 83. KLEA MCKENNA 84. TOM MCKINLEY 85. JENNA MEACHAM 86. JIM MELCHERT 87. MASAKO MIKI 89. NATANI NOTAH 90. BRION NUDA ROSCH 91. CROCHET JAM 92. YÉTUNDÉ OLÁGBAJÚ 93. SANDRA ONO 94. KELLY ORDING 95. KARI ORVIK 96. JENNIE OTTINGER 97. J RIVERA PANSA 98. ERIK R PARRA 99. ALISON PEBWORTH 100. KEITH PETERSEN 101. CARISSA POTTER CARLSON 102. MEL PREST 103. GENEVIEVE QUICK 105. RACHELLE REICHERT 106. KATE RHOADES

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PHILLIP MAISEL Poble-Sec, Poble-Nou (5702) 2020, Archival pigment print 24” x 17” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My practice generally involves collecting materials from specific locations, creating sculptural arrangements with them, and then making photographs and collages based on these still lifes. In this piece, I incorporated snapshots predominantly taken while in lockdown in Barcelona; building facades, off-limit playgrounds, darkened skies, and domestic scenes; as well as watercolors made in response to the imagery. The final work, printed exclusively for the SoEx Auction, sits between documentation of a collage and sculpture, and reflects on an ambiguity both of surface and of circumstance.

ARTIST’S BIO Maisel holds a MFA in Visual Arts from California College of the Arts in San Francisco (2013), and a Bachelors of Science in Psychology from McGill University in Montreal (2003). Solo exhibitions include: Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco, Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles, and Document in Chicago.

His work has also been exhibited at the William Benton Museum in Connecticut; The University of New Mexico in Taos; and DeCordova Museum in Massachusetts. He just completed the Short-Term Residency at Hangar in Barcelona, in which he produced the artist book Two Concrete Things in collaboration with Chiquita Room in Barcelona. Reviews of his work have appeared in Lenscratch, Art Practical, Modern Painters, and Fabrik, among others.

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PABLO MANGA Early Riser

2020, 2 Color Screen Print on Archival Paper 14” x 11” Courtesy of the Artist and Hang Art Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION I work in a mode of geometric abstraction infused with interests that are social and spiritual, emotional rather than rational, and concern bodies not platonic forms. My goal is to create contemplative visual spaces that are a resource for inner life and being in the world. “Early Riser” is a two-color screen print that I made during a printmaking residency at Kala Art Institute last year.

ARTIST’S BIO Pablo Manga works in a mode of geometric abstraction infused with interests that are social and spiritual, emotional rather than rational, and concern bodies not platonic forms. He is known for his use of colored packing tape as a painting medium and has recently brought the vocabulary he developed in that work into printmaking and murals, with a printmaking residency at Kala Art Institute and the Presidio Field Hospital mural project. Manga is represented locally by Hang Art gallery, with whom his work has traveled to the SCOPE and Aqua art fairs in Miami. In 2020, his work was in three group shows - de Young Open (de Young Museum), MFA Never (Root Division) and Left Coast (Marin Museum of Contemporary Art) - and a solo show at Farm Projects in Wellfleet, MA. His upcoming solo show there will be his fourth with the gallery.

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MICHELLE MANSOUR Little Warrior of Devotion (Sapphire) 2020, Acrylic, ink, and silicone on muslin on panel 12” x 9” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $150

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My work is a meditation on the space between science and spirituality. Forging a connection between the microcosmic and macrocosmic, the paintings push an imaginative space, exploring tensions and relationships between corporeal and mystical, body and mind. My process includes layering translucent color and building up a symmetrical system of intersecting strands of cells. In applying thousands of tiny dots, I create an ethereal space where constellations gather and disperse in an endless cycle.

Particles accumulate, and I layer globules of silicone to emerge from the surface as tissue-like prayer beads. The result is the juxtaposition of jewel-like fields and manipulated surfaces, creating a tactile element for counting countless meditations. This exponentially cyclical process of repeating marks becomes a devotional practice in contemplating the exquisite balance between certainty and faith, presence and loss.

ARTIST’S BIO Michelle Mansour is an artist, educator, and curator as well as the current Executive Director of Root Division. Her work as been shown in a variety of non-profit and commercial venues such as the DeYoung Museum, Bedford Gallery, Morris Graves Museum, and Minnesota Street Project, including solo exhibitions at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, RB Stevenson Gallery (La Jolla), Berkeley Art Center.

Mansour has work in a variety of collections including Nordstroms, Hilton Hotels, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, and the El Camino Hospital. Mansour received her MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute.

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KARI MARBOE Doppelganger 2019, Ceramic, glaze 7” x 5” x 3” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $600 Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Doppelganger is part of a series called Duplicating Daniel which traced artist Kari Marboe’s attempts to recreate an original sculpture, recorded as missing from Mills College Art Museum’s permanent collection, by the influential but under-recognized ceramicist Daniel Rhodes. The only remaining evidence of this sculpture is its accession date (1975, gift of the artist) and a murky black and white photocopy.

ARTIST’S BIO Kari Marboe is a Bay Area artist and Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts (CCA), Oakland and San Francisco, CA. She completed her BFA in Ceramics from CCA in 2008 and her MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012. Marboe’s archive-based ceramic works and performances have been exhibited at the Mills College Art Museum, CA, Greenwich House Pottery, NY, 500 Capp Street/Southern Exposure, CA, the Berkeley Art Center, the Museum of Craft and Design, CA, Wave Pool Gallery, OH, the Museum of Northern California Art, CA, Jacksonville University, FL, and the Waffle Shop Billboard, PA. She has done residencies at Greenwich House Pottery, NY, Mutual Stores, CA, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, ME, and Elsewhere Museum, NC. 170

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VANESSA MARSH Landscape #30, from the series Everywhere All at Once 2015, Pigment print resulting from drawing and photogram techniques 24” x 24” Courtesy of the Artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery Retail Value: $2,600 Starting Bid: $900

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This work is from the series Everywhere All at Once which I have been working on since 2015. The series continues in my practise of combining drawing and photogram techniques to create imaginary photographic landscapes. These landscapes consider our everyday relationships with the landscape around us, both symbiotic and destructive.

ARTIST’S BIO Vanessa Marsh is an Oakland-based visual artist working in a mixed media process rooted in photography. Marsh creates imaginary landscapes and atmospheres which inform a greater awareness of the everyday places around us. Originally from Washington State, she moved to the Bay Area in 2002 and earned an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2004. Exhibitions include The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Foley Gallery in New York, photo-Eye Gallery in Santa Fe, NM and Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco. Select collections include The San Jose Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Art and the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has been awarded Fellowships at the Headlands Center for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony and Kala Art Institute. In 2014, she was Artist in Residence at Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco and in 2017 at Jentle Foundation in Banner, Wyoming.

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PATRICK MARTINEZ RISE 2017, Neon on plexiglass 8.5” x 14” x 3” Courtesy of the Artist and Charlie James Gallery Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Patrick’s neon sign works are fabricated to mirror street level commercial signage, but are remixed to present words and phrases drawn from literary and oratorical sources.

ARTIST’S BIO Patrick Martinez maintains a diverse practice that includes mixed media landscape paintings, neon sign pieces, cake paintings, and his Pee Chee series of appropriative works. The landscape paintings are abstractions composed of Los Angeles surface content. Patrick’s neon sign works are fabricated to mirror street level commercial signage, but are remixed to present words and phrases drawn from literary and oratorical sources. His acrylic on panel Cake paintings memorialize leaders, activists, and thinkers, and the Pee Chee series documents the threats posed to black and brown youth by law enforcement. Patrick Martinez earned his BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in 2005. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally in Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Miami, New York, Seoul, and the Netherlands. Patrick’s work resides in the permanent collections of LACMA, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Patrick lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is represented by Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles.

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MICHAEL MCCONNELL Plunge 2017, Acrylic on wood Panel 10” x 8” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $400 Starting Bid: $125

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION In this work I am investigating the space that falls in between abstraction and realism. Using colors and shapes to create landscapes through abstraction. These landscapes are grounded in reality by the animals that reside in them.

ARTIST’S BIO Michael McConnell was born in Michigan, where he used to watch squirrels from the front window. He studied art at the Columbus College of Art & Design, with an emphasis in lithography and painting.

After graduating from CCAD, he packed up a U-Haul and drove across country to the Bay Area, where he now lives in San Francisco. In the past 17 years he hasn’t found a good reason to leave. Michael was represented by Braunstein/Quay Gallery in San Francisco for 10 years, but since their closure, he has been on the lookout for new gallery representation. In the meantime he has enjoyed showing with Gauntlet Gallery in San Francisco, Marion and Rose’s Workshop in Oakland, and Abrams Claghorn Gallery in Albany. If not in his studio, you can find Michael drinking coffee at his shop in the Mission District, dancing, or playing light sabers with his family.

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ANNE MCGUIRE The Four Seasons

2016, Watercolor, pencil, on paper 20” x 20” Courtesy of the Artist and Gregory Lind Gallery Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This watercolor captures summer, autumn, winter, and spring as unfolding from a spiral of squares on a grid and is directly inspired by historical paintings of the four seasons (eg, Bruegel). This work is part of McGuire’s decade-long series of square spiral paintings in which she treats each square on the grid as it’s own edit, note, letter, or word as she creates the resulting image-story.

ARTIST’S BIO Anne is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and currently makes works on paper, video, performance, poetry, and prose. Her works on paper have been collected by the Berkeley Art Museum/ Pacific Archive, and her videos are distributed by Video Databank at the Art Institute of Chicago. British artist James Richards will include Anne’s video When I Was a Monster in his show at Haus Mödrath in Cologne, Germany later this year.

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KLEA MCKENNA Just Keep Going

2020, Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper 30” x 24” Courtesy of the Artist and Euqinom Gallery Retail Value: $400 Starting Bid: $150

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION In the early months of the pandemic I began making cameraless photographs (photograms) on the roof of our apartment using the limited materials available to me and the fading effect that sunlight and time inflict on fugitive ink colors. I use old handkerchiefs as my negatives. They are artifacts of personal health and hygiene; intimate objects that have each been carried by someone and absorbed their body’s fluids: snot, sweat and tears. This is a limited edition print of a quartet of fugitive ink photograms from the installation “No Feeling Is Final”. The full installation of 140 photograms and 200+ handkerchiefs is currently on view at SFMOMA in the exhibition Close to Home.

ARTIST’S BIO Klea McKenna is a visual artist who also makes films and writes. Her work has been shown and published internationally at venues such as SFMOMA, Datz Museum of Art in Korea, The Museum of Photographic Arts in CA and the Hecksher Museum in NY. Her photograms are held in the collection of the SFMOMA, LACMA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the US Embassy collection, The Mead Museum of Art and The Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Klea is represented by Euqinom Gallery in San Francisco and Gitterman Gallery in New York. In addition to her own art practice, she was co-founder and photographer at IN THE MAKE an online arts journal that published studio visits and interviews with over 120 West Coast artists from 2011 to 2015. She is the daughter of renegade ethnobotanists, Kathleen Harrison and Terence McKenna. Klea lives in San Francisco with her husband and their young children.

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TOM MCKINLEY Train Station

1997, Aquatint 21 3/4” x 32 3/4” Courtesy of the Artist and Berggruen Gallery Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $800

ARTIST’S BIO Born in Bay City, Michigan, Tom McKinley was educated in both Europe and the United States.

Beginning at the Goddard Collage in Vermont, he continued his education overseas in England at the Falmouth School of Art, the Ravensbourne College of Art, London, and Brighton Polytechnic.

Tom McKinley’s paintings depict quiet, still, uninhabited spaces. Most of these spaces belong in the interior of someone’s home yet they bare no trace of human contact or individuation. An edge of a billiard table, a corner of a pool, a section of a veranda; these spaces are beautiful and unexpected architectural experiences. A rhythm of geometry, pattern, and repeating forms permeate these quiet settings. Light from peripheral windows breathes some life into these otherwise inanimate spaces.

McKinley paints in a meticulously photorealist style which further heightens the surreal nature of these images.

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JENNA MEACHAM Viewfinder 2019, Inkjet print 16” x 20” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $450 Starting Bid: $150

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This piece was made using a found photograph and manipulated in the scanner. I have been exploring the ideas of memory and longing by experimenting with alternative forms of image making. I am very interested in the relationship between memory and photography. It is so easy for memories to be warped and skewed overtime. Memory, like photography is a fragile process and I love how they two can inform each other.

ARTIST’S BIO Jenna Meacham’s work has a confessional quality. She investigates loneliness, intimacy, and cultural ideas around couple-ness. Her work rarely takes the same form twice, sometimes using photography, sculpture, or installation. She hopes to connect to viewers through their own personal relationships, and help them to gain a new perspective on connection. Meacham studies these themes by deconstructing ads promising true love, or exploring objects that represent or are a replacement for intimacy and affection, and sometimes she mines missed connections to learn about how place and technology mediate our relationships. Using her own memories and experiences with relationships, she explores romanticism, human connection, and the promise of the happily ever after. Meacham received her MFA from San Francisco State University and was a graduate fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2018. She has shown work in numerous galleries and institutions across the Bay Area.

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JIM MELCHERT Mended Shards Set Afloat 2020, Broken and glazed porcelain mounted on plywood backing 12” x 12” x 1 3/8” Courtesy of the Artist and Paul Kotula, Detroit Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Jim Melchert’s work of the past thirty years can be described, at once accurately and poetically, as a transcendent exploration of mending. Using commercially-manufactured floor tile as his primary material, Melchert engages in deliberate breakage and consequent, system-based repair and elaboration.

ARTIST’S BIO Jim Melchert has been at the center of the Bay Area’s artistic growth and served as Visual Arts head at the NEA and Director of the American Academy at Rome. His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley. Melchert has worked in a variety of media, including drawing, film, and ceramics. The path of his artistic development is conceptual, and his ideas led him to a unique process involving ceramic tiles: breaking them, drawing on them, reassembling them and painting the new constructions with glaze.

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MASAKO MIKI Dango (possessed insect), 2018 2018, Wool and 14k gold-filled pin 2.75” x 3” x 1.5” Courtesy of the Artist and CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions Retail Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $450

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Miki’s felt sculptures (both these miniatures and the larger Shapeshifter series) draw references from yōkai/ obake (preternatural creatures or monsters) in Japanese folklore. Literally the term means ‘a thing that changes’, refering to a state of transformation or shapeshifting. Often the yōkai take on form of a disguised animal like cat, or a fox, or it may disguise itself as a human, or appear in a strange form such as one-eyed child, or faceless ghost. Miki approaches these preternatural monsters with a sense of humor, her use of color and materials suggesting a playful and mischievous nature. Miki has continued her exploration of the Shinto concept of the Tsukumogami yōkai—shape-shifters that take the form of commonplace objects and undefinable forms. By engaging with these ancient mythologies, Miki hopes to forge new collective narratives that express contemporary cultural values, echoing dichotomies of human identity and transformation. Miki’s characters embody the contrary characteristics of being both sacred and secular, animate and inanimate and reflect the nuances of nonbinary spaces across gender, biracial identities and her own experience as a Japanese immigrant woman living between two cultures.

ARTIST’S BIO Masako Miki was born in Osaka, Japan and has resided in the Bay Area for over twenty years. She has exhibited throughout the Bay Area at venues including Headlands Center for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Kala Art Institute, and The Lab. She was a resident artist at The Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center, Project 387 (Gualala, CA), Kamiyama Artists in Residency (Tokushima, Japan), Facebook Artist in Residence (Menlo Park, CA) and the de Young Museum with an accompanying solo exhibition in 2016. She received the 2018 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship from the Watermill Center in New York and 2017 Artist Fellow Award from Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. Her works are in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, Facebook, The Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation, and private collections.

Miki received her MFA from San Jose State University and has been on the adjunct faculty at University of California Berkeley, Davis, and Mills College. Miki’s public art commission of 9 bronze sculptures will be unveiled in San Francisco’s Mission Bay in spring of 2021; she is represented by CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions.

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NATANI NOTAH The Emancipation of Mia 2020, Digital print 11” x 14” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $800 Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This print is part of a new series of intimate works on paper and sculptural assemblages that respond to the disappearance of Mia the Indian Butter Maiden from consumer goods. I am particularly interested in exploring her removal through the deconstruction and abstraction of promotional packaging and merchandise. Ultimately, I am invested in imagining what she will do post-retirement?

ARTIST’S BIO Natani Notah is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and is also of Lakota and Cherokee descent. Notah has exhibited her work at institutions, such as apexart, New York City; NXTHVN, New Haven; Tucson Desert Art Museum, Tucson; Gas Gallery, Los Angeles; The Holland Project, Reno; Mana Contemporary, Chicago; Axis Gallery, Sacramento; SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, and elsewhere. Notah has received awards from Art Matters, International Sculpture Center, and the San Francisco Foundation. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Hyperallergic, Forbes, and Sculpture Magazine and she has had artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Grounds for Sculpture, Headlands Center for the Arts, and This Will Take Time, Oakland. Currently she is a 2020-2021 Kala Art Institute Fellow and an Instructor for Stanford Continuing Studies. Notah holds a BFA with a minor in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies from Cornell University and an MFA from Stanford University.

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BRION NUDA ROSCH Large Circle Form Matching Base 2018, Acrylic, paper, found book page 11” x 8” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $300

ARTIST’S BIO Brion Nuda Rosch lives and works in San Francisco, he has exhibited his work at Et al., San Francisco; Halsey McKay, New York; DCKT Contemporary, New York; ACME., Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Recent curatorial projects include OK GREAT THANKS THIS IS SO RIDICULOUS, at ACME. and DCKT. He has also organized exhibitions and projects for SFMOMA’s Open Space, Adobe Books, as well as his residential gallery, Hallway Projects and One-Day Residency Program. Rosch was recently an artist-in-residence at UC Berkeley’s Ceramics Department. SFMOMA SECA Finalist in 2011, he was the recipient of the Artadia Award in 2009.

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CROCHET JAM Virtual Crochet Jam 2012-2021, Group activity with fabric over a virtual platform of your choosing Courtesy of the Artist and Patricia Sweetow Gallery Retail Value: $400 Starting Bid: $100

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION “This is an opportunity to host your own Crochet Jam led by Ramekon O’Arwisters over zoom. Invite your friends and family to join you remotely in this fun event. Crochet Jams engage the public to think differently about the role of art within community and the power of art within society. Crochet Jam—a public, art-making event that’s embracing and inclusive, with no attempt made to dictate the creative process nor judge the finished project—is meditative, liberating, and empowering. Ramekon O’Arwisters started Crochet Jam in 2012. My community-art event is rooted in a cherished childhood memory that’s steeped in the African-American tradition of weaving in a calm and non-judgmental environment without rules or limitations. “ ARTIST’S BIO Ramekon O’Arwisters is the founder of Crochet Jam, a community arts project infused with folk-art traditions that foster a creative culture in cooperative relationships. O’Arwisters has been an Artistin-Residence at Recology, San Francisco, CA; the Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA; and the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. He has shown work at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Fouladi Projects, San Francisco, CA; African American Art & Culture Complex, San Francisco, CA; and more. His projects have been covered by publications such as Surface Design Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Commonwealth Times, 7 x 7, and more. O’Arwisters is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco.

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YÉTUNDÉ OLÁGBAJÚ I witness you (for laure) 2020, Inkjet print 34” x 50” Courtesy of the Artist and Pt. 2 Gallery Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $150

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION A print of an edit of Edouard Manet’s “Olympia” with major individuals removed from the original composition. The edit is done in order to comment on the ways in which Black models (like Laure) were meant to fade into the background of the paintings they are placed in. By removing their white counterparts, beauties -- like Laure -- are able to be witnessed by themselves and by being placed into these new compositions, a new narrative is able to form.

ARTIST’S BIO Yétundé Olagbaju is an artist and maker, currently residing in Oakland, CA. They utilize performance, sculpture, action, gesture, and video as through-lines for inquiries regarding Black labor, legacy and processes of healing. They are rooted in the need to understand history, the people that made it, the myths surrounding them and how their own body is implicated in history’s timeline.

They have shown work at various spaces including Oakland Museum of California, Southern Exposure, and Museum of the African Diaspora. They hold an MFA from Mills College and are the recipient of the inaugural Nancy Cook Fellowship, the Murphy Cadogan Awards, the Jay Defeo Award. They recently presented a solo project by the same title, including this print, at Southern Exposure. They are currently in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.

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SANDRA ONO Untitled

2012, Chromogenic print framed in UV museum glass 21” x 27” x 1.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION During her Kala Fellowship Residency Ono created a series of virtual sculptures by digitally compositing images that she shot with a 4x5 camera. These digital sculptures are composed of skin, cacti, sea sponges and plant roots.

ARTIST’S BIO Sandra Ono is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ono has exhibited throughout Northern California as well as in Texas, New York, San Diego and New Jersey.

She has completed residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Minnesota Street Project, University of Texas at Dallas, Kala Art Institute, Southern Exposure, Vermont Studio Center and Mascot Studio.

Ono earned her MFA from Mills College and her BA from UC Davis.

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KELLY ORDING Sunrise/Sunset

2019, Acrylic and archival ink on hand-dyed paper 11.25” x 11.25” Courtesy of the Artist and pt.2 gallery Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This piece, “Sunrise/Sunset”, is an abstract landscape work that is solely intuitive, beginning with a dyeing process that allows for natural, uncontrollable processes to take place. Upon this uncontrolled background, I apply restrained, detailed line-work, creating a juxtaposition. I’m interested in ways repetition, geometric patterns and mathematical marking inherently evoke represented subjects in the viewer. For me, the reds in this piece remind me of the layers and layers of colors present during a sunrise and sunset.

ARTIST’S BIO Based in Oakland, California, Kelly Ording has exhibited her work both in the U.S. and Internationally since graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000. Ording has created several large-scale public works and murals that can be seen in San Francisco’s Clarion Alley and Palega Park Recreation Center, Genentech, the Emeryville Center for Community Life, as well as other locations throughout the Bay Area and Internationally. She has completed residencies at the Facebook Analog Research Laboratory, Menlo Park and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley. Ording recently completed a large-scale paving project on Ocean Avenue in conjunction with the San Francisco Art Commission and the San Francisco Department of Public Works. She was the recipient of the 2020 Kala Art Institute Master Artists Award.

Her work is included in several collections; such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art collection, the San Francisco Arts Commission Public and Civic Art Collection, the Alameda County Collection, JP Morgan Chase Collection and the Ellie Mae Collection.

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KARI ORVIK

What a room can hold: Women’s lounge, Valente Funeral Home (now closed) 2016, Archival pigment print 16” x 20” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $600 Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This image is part of the ongoing series Geneva, which is both a document and personal inquiry into value and our changing urban spaces. This work considers the multitude of collective and individual experiences of grief, which are symbolically and physically contained within the spaces provided for the ritual of mourning.

ARTIST’S BIO Kari Orvik is a photo-based artist and educator. Using physical engagements with film, historical processes and found materials, her work explores the resilience and fragility of our changing urban and natural environments through the lens of what we hold onto, what we let go of, and where we place value. Her work has shown at the Oakland Museum of California, the Petersen Museum in LA, SF Camerawork, and is in the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum. An artist in residence at Recology SF, Rayko Photo Center, and graduate fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts, she has taught digital and alternative photo processes in Bay Area schools including the San Francisco Art Institute, City College of SF, UC Berkeley, and currently operates a tintype portrait studio in San Francisco’s Outer Mission.

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JENNIE OTTINGER The Men’s Room 2020, Oil on panel 20” x 24” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My friends were servers at THE Country Club in Brookline, Mass and women weren’t allowed in the men’s dining room. Only women staff was allowed.

ARTIST’S BIO Jennie Ottinger was raised in Massachusetts and therefore knows a lot about the Revolutionary war and cranberries. Just kidding. She doesn’t know anything about either of those things. She does know a lot about cheerleaders though and loves to paint them, among other things. She went to CCA for undergrad and Mills for her MFA. She has exhibited extensively in the Bay Area as well as in New York, London, Dallas, and LA. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, It’s Nice That, and other places that made her happy. She lives in San Francisco.

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J RIVERA PANSA G.M.P. x 30

2021, Aluminum eyelet, photo print, steel jumpring, nylon fitting, zinc rod 18” x 12” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Modular photo print sculpture in green hues. Fragment elements calling forward landscape imagery present in the photos tethered through aluminum eyelets and steel jumpring joinery. Piece is draped in zinc rod in a small tapestry format.

ARTIST’S BIO J Rivera Pansa works in occupied Chochenyo Ohlone Land (Oakland, CA). Currently, Rivera Pansa incorporates the “grid” as an expansive field tethering association involving connectivity and physical structural systems. They produce responsive works reflecting upon humanistic systems in regards to seriality stemming from contemporary capital structures such as digital networks, electrical grid, graphic data, and cartographic mapping. These systems serve as a foil in their navigation into selfdeterminative networks of kinship - of QTPOC chosen family and diasporic community, presented as installation/sculptural platforms of forum and gathering to convey larger connectivity. They recently presented the solo project ‘Verseplot’ at Southern Exposure. Rivera Pansa was born in Olongapo, Philippines and completed their BA in Art Practice from University of California, Berkeley in 2017.

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ERIK R PARRA Foyer 2

2015, Acrylic with marker and spray paint 14” x 11” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION I make paintings and drawings that engage the visual tropes of contemporary spaces to reveal and revise the stories embedded in the environments we build. To do this, I draw upon my personal memories of growing up in a “mid-century Modernist house” and conflate those in the studio with more recent direct memories of interiors and design objects to construct engaging hypothetical interiors.

ARTIST’S BIO Erik Richard Parra holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Art degree in painting from The University of Texas at Austin and a Masters of Fine Art completed on fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently based in San Francisco, Erik has exhibited internationally including Berlin, Brazil, Los Angeles, London and New York. In the Bay Area Erik’s work has been exhibited at Blankspace Gallery, Johansson Projects, The Headlands Center for the Arts, Root Division, Southern Exposure, Kala Art Institute, the Berkeley Art Center and most recently at Eleanor Harwood Gallery. Erik’s work has been included in publications including New American Paintings, the SF Bay Gaudian and the LA Times. Erik teaches drawing and painting at the California College of the Arts, and City College of San Francisco. Additionally, Erik has garnered residencies and awards, recently he was awarded an inaugural Hopper Prize, an inaugural Liquitex Research Residency and most recently he was awarded an Iris Project Residency.

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ALISON PEBWORTH Georgia’s State Tree (Stacey Abrams as a Sprout) 2021, Prismacolor pencil on paper 14” x 11” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,250 Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This piece was inspired by the crucial work of Stacey Abrams to bring out the vote in Georgia. When I see women I admire, I always want to see them as a girl, too. The whole tree is contained in the acorn.

ARTIST’S BIO Alison Pebworth is a San Francisco based artist whose work focuses on long- range projects that combine painting, installation and social interaction. She is the recipient of awards from The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, The Center for Cultural Innovation, The McEvoy Foundation,GEN ART, and the Present Group. Selected residencies include The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (NE), Recology SF (CA), Ucross Foundation (WY), Cannonball (FL), and Space (Victoria BC). She has exhibited at Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the DeYoung Museum, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, The Oakland Museum of California and The New Children’s Museum in San Diego. She has toured her work to numerous venues across North America including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; The Salt Lake Art Center, Utah; and Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC. 210

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KEITH PETERSEN Untitled #308

2020, Archival pigment print, edition of 12 16” x 16” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $350

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Nature and the climate crisis are a primary influence on my creative practice. My interest in the intersection of the natural sciences and art has led to an exploration of the interactions between natural and synthetic materials, many of which I make from scratch. I use photographic processes to document the often unstable and ephemeral reactions I instigate in my studio. These processes allow me to see and communicate that which is not visible to the unaided eye.

ARTIST’S BIO Keith Petersen is an artist and photographer living in the East Bay. He works as a photographer specializing in Fine Art and Antique documentation. He graduated from CCAC with a BFA in Photography and has shown work in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.

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CARISSA POTTER CARLSON Remembering Mie’s house 2020, Acrylic on Arches paper 36” x 42” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This piece is a diptych of two overlapping paintings, one framed and one not. Mie is someone who I admire. I loved her at first sight. She lives across the world. I take comfort in remembering how it felt to be in her house. She got fresh flowers delivered once a week and always baked fresh bread each morning. It was so joyful just to be near her.

ARTIST’S BIO Carissa Potter lives and works in Oakland, California. Her prints and small-scale objects reflect her hopeless romanticism through their investigations into public and private intimacy. Speaking both humorously and poignantly to the human condition, Carissa’s work touches chords we all can relate to – exploring situations we’ve all experienced at some point in our lives and conveying messages we simply long to hear. Carissa received her MFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010 and is a founding member of Colpa Press, the founder of People I’ve Loved and co-founder of If You Were Here Now. 214

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MEL PREST Soft Gingham

2020, Acrylic and interference color on wood panel 12” x 12” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Galleri Urbane, Dallas + Marfa, TX (Texas only) Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION I’ve worked with color and line since 2000, and the paintings are an object for inquiry, a background for a conversation, or a place that holds a memory. Soft Gingham embodies a childhood memory of snowy winter in Minneapolis. My hope is that the accumulation of different paint qualities makes the work kinetic and feel “charged”.

ARTIST’S BIO Mel Prest is an American abstract artist, whose intricate, layered paintings mobilize color, line, and perspective to activate kinetic perceptual phenomena. She lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Prest’s work has been exhibited internationally including: The Drawing Center, New York; The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Durham, NC; IS Projects, Leiden, The Netherlands; McKenzie Fine Art, New York; Saturation Point, London, UK; Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo. Prest has been awarded residencies at: Ragdale, The Sam and Adele Golden Artist Foundation (2012 and 2018), Willapa Bay AiR, (2014 and 2021) The Wassaic Project, The MH deYoung Museum, Vermont Studio Center. As an independent curator, Prest has organized shows in Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich and Zagreb. Her work is held in collections at Apple; The Berkeley Art Museum, The Crocker Museum of Art; Kaiser Permanente; Marin General Hospital, The Mills College Art Museum, among others.

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GENEVIEVE QUICK The Celadonian 2020, Ink on paper 16” x 20” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This is a drawing of the Celadonians, who originate from Planet Celadon, my fictional imagining of Asian American diasporic identity.

ARTIST’S BIO Genevieve Quick is an interdisciplinary artist and arts writer whose work explores global identity and politics in speculative narratives, technology, and media-based practices. In her sculptures, installations, videos, and performance, her humorous science fiction narratives exaggerate disaporic identity to the intergalactic to address Otherness and displacement. She has exhibited at the Wattis Institute, San Francisco; Asian Cultural Center, Gwangju, South Korea; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland; [2nd floor projects]; Royal Nonsuch Gallery; and Southern Exposure. Quick has been awarded visual arts residencies at The Headlands Center for the Arts, Recology, MacDowell, Djerassi, the deYoung Museum, and Yaddo. She has received a San Francisco Arts Commission Grant; a Eureka Grant from the Fleishhacker Foundation; a Kala Fellowship; and grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation. Quick has contributed writings to Artforum, cmagazine, Art Practical, Daily Serving, Temporary Art Review, and College Art Association.

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RACHELLE REICHERT Panta Rhei 2016, Graphite, salt on panel 48” x 36” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $6,000 Starting Bid: $1,250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This work references energetic flows. It is made through an additive process. The work’s title references ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus in that change is the fundamental essence of the universe.

ARTIST’S BIO Rachelle Reichert lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Select exhibitions include the Center for Contemporary Art at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, September Gallery, and Mills College Art Museum. Her work has been reviewed and published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Make Magazine, California Home and Design, and New American Paintings. Artwork is included in many public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archive, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Library, Facebook Headquarters, and Adobe, Inc. Reichert has presented her practice at the California Climate Change Symposium, San Francisco State of the Estuary Conference, the American Geophysical Union Meeting, and currently holds a Research Ambassadorship from Planet Labs to create climate-related artwork. She earned her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, CA and a BFA from Boston University. She is a charter resident of the Minnesota Street Studio Program.

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KATE RHOADES Czolgosz in the Woods 2020, Oil on panel 24” x 30” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This oil painting depicts Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist that assassinated president William McKinley walking through the woods of Warrensville, Ohio. He lived on a farm there with his family until the assassination in 1901. This work is part of a larger project about the assassination, Czolgosz’s life, and his connection to the famous anarchist orator, Emma Goldman. More about the project is here.

ARTIST’S BIO Kate Rhoades lives and works in Oakland, California. She has presented works in the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Santa Fe International New Media Festival. Rhoades has participated in exhibitions at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and various venues, publications, hotel rooms and alley ways across the globe. Since 2014 she has co-hosted the Bay Area’s number one arts and culture podcast, Congratulations Pine Tree. Rhoades was also one of the Fleishhacker Foundation’s Eureka Fellowship grantees in 2018.

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107. MEGHANN RIEPENHOFF 108. BLAISE ROSENTHAL 109. BYRON RYONO 110. JAMES SANSING 111. JAMES SANSING 112. RON MOULTRIE SAUNDERS 113. AZIN SERAJ 115. SARAH A. SMITH 116. JENNIE SMITH 117. CHRIS SOLLARS 118. NELLIE KING SOLOMON 120. CHARLENE TAN 121. SARAH THIBAULT 122. SIMON TRAN 123. TARA TUCKER 124. ANNA VALDEZ 125. JAMIE VASTA 126. BEN VENOM 127. ANDY VOGT 128. CATHERINE WAGNER 129. HANNAH WAITERS 130. ADRIAN OCTAVIUS WALKER 131. AMANDA WALTERS 132. LEWIS WATTS 133. DEIRDRE WHITE 134. DAVID WILSON 135. JENIFER K WOFFORD 136. CHELSEA WONG 137. CHRISTINE WONG YAP 138. ROCHELLE YOUK 139. MINOOSH ZOMORODINIA

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MEGHANN RIEPENHOFF For Anna, Vol. II, Plate 59 2017, Cyanotype, seaweed, water from the Salish Sea 12” x 9” Courtesy of the Artist and Haines Gallery Retail Value: $3,500 Starting Bid: $1,250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Unique cyanotype ARTIST’S BIO Riepenhoff’s work has been exhibited and is held in the collections at the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), and the Worcester Art Museum. Additional collections and exhibitions include the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yossi Milo Gallery, Jackson Fine Art, Galerie du Monde, Euqinom Projects, the Aperture Foundation, San Francisco Camerawork, the Denver Art Museum, the New York Public Library, and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). Publications include ArtForum, Aperture PhotoBook Review, The New York Times, Time Magazine, among others. Her monograph Littoral Drift + Ecotone was published by Radius Books and Yossi Milo Gallery. Riepenhoff is the recipient of a Fleishhacker Foundation grant, residencies at the Banff Centre, Rayko, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and an affiliate studio award at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is a 2018-19 Guggenheim Fellow. Riepenhoff is based in Bainbridge Island, WA and San Francisco, CA. She received a BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia, and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. She is from Atlanta, GA. She is represented by Haines Gallery, Jackson Fine Art, Yossi Milo Gallery.

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BLAISE ROSENTHAL Good Country

2015, Charcoal, earth pigments, and acrylic on canvas 54” x 66” Courtesy of the Artist and Johansson Projects Retail Value: $6,950 Starting Bid: $2,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION calaveras. skulls. the first home i remember was on the edge of nowhere. at the end of a dirt road in the foothills of the sierra nevada i spent my formative years. the elemental character of this environment and its aesthetic vocabulary became archetypal for me. earth, water, fire and wind; all in local forms. seasons. dusty bare feet and no shirt through dry heat summers, and the sound of crickets at night. stars beyond counting. the still death of autumn. winter, with rain on the roof, the smell of cold smoke, and darkness. and then spring, and resurrection. this place formed my bones and my blood, and much of what is true about me. it made what is mine, and what i have to share. it is from the residue of this experience that i form my paintings.

ARTIST’S BIO Blaise Rosenthal incorporates elements of the environment in his work. He is a self-taught artist who has shown work in solo and group shows throughout the Bay Area. Rosenthal was awarded the Reader’s Choice Artist (2014) by New American Painters and the Juror’s Selection of Noteworthy Artists (2014).

His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Johansson Projects Gallery (Oakland), Europhaus Gallery Space (Austria), and more.

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BYRON RYONO Untitled

2019, Steel and marbles, rotates by hand 6.5” x 3.5” x 2.5” Courtesy of the Artist and Jack Fischer Gallery Retail Value: $700 Starting Bid: $150

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION I cast bronze. I also scavenge and collect metal with interesting forms. My work is influenced by Eduardo Chillida, Martin Puryear and Robert Therrien.

ARTIST’S BIO Byron Ryono is a bay area-based sculptor. His work belongs to permanent collections at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Xilinx Collection. Ryono has had solo exhibitions at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary (Oakland), Jack Fisher Gallery (SF), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. His work consists of sculptural objects that are visually stimulating and sometimes social commentaries.

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JAMES SANSING polar bear 2021, Cement, plastic, wood 15” x 4.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $350 Starting Bid: $125

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION animal head trophies ARTIST’S BIO The marks left by people and the way nature incorporates those marks into the landscape have always fascinated James Sansing. He is interested in the point at which nature has infiltrated and textured the relics, but has not yet absorbed the evidence of a human narrative. As a result, his work includes natural and constructed objects, such as living plants and miniature bricks cut from found bricks. He considers the composition of the installation based not on architecture, but anti-architecture. To Sansing, the work is composed of what is left behind rather than what was once there, and in some cases gambles on what is assumed will collapse during the exhibit to complete the composition. Sansing received his BFA and MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has shown films at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands, Anthology Film Archive, NY, Media City Film Festival, Windsor Ontario Canada, among others. Sansing was also a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2014 and the Sustainable Arts Foundation grant in 2013.

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JAMES SANSING elk 2021, Cement, plastic, wood 15 “ x 4.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $350 Starting Bid: $125

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION animal head trophies ARTIST’S BIO The marks left by people and the way nature incorporates those marks into the landscape have always fascinated James Sansing. He is interested in the point at which nature has infiltrated and textured the relics, but has not yet absorbed the evidence of a human narrative. As a result, his work includes natural and constructed objects, such as living plants and miniature bricks cut from found bricks. He considers the composition of the installation based not on architecture, but anti-architecture. To Sansing, the work is composed of what is left behind rather than what was once there, and in some cases gambles on what is assumed will collapse during the exhibit to complete the composition. Sansing received his BFA and MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has shown films at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands, Anthology Film Archive, NY, Media City Film Festival, Windsor Ontario Canada, among others. Sansing was also a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2014 and the Sustainable Arts Foundation grant in 2013.

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RON MOULTRIE SAUNDERS When i was a little girl...

2018, Sepia toned silver print, edition no. 5 of 5 30” x 24” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION The photogram “When i was a little girl...” is from an ongoing series ‘Beneath My Skin is the History of My Beauty’. I create photograms: photographs that are made without the use of a camera. This 19th century process has an immediacy, rawness, and truth that is not found in images created with a camera. I lay people onto the surface of silver-based photographic paper and expose the composition to light from an enlarger to create a shadowy silhouette image.

ARTIST’S BIO Ron Moultrie Saunders, a co-founding member of the 3.9 Art Collective, is a photographic artist and landscape architect. Originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York, he currently lives in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. He creates photograms: photographs that are made without the use of a camera. His art work is in the San Francisco Arts Commission Civic Art Collection for projects he completed for the San Francisco Library, Linda Brooks-Burton Bayview Branch, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Laguna Honda Hospital and, Public Utilities Commission New Headquarters in San Francisco. He was commissioned to create works for VM Ware, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA and Dallas, TX and, for The San Francisco Travel Association (formerly SF Convention and Visitors Bureau) new offices. His art has been exhibited throughout the US including “The Secret Life of Plants”, solo shows (San Francisco International Airport and CordenPotts Gallery, San Francisco, CA), and group shows “Echoes of Bauhaus Photography Cast Long Shadows” at Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, California (2020),“Self:Scape” at Middlesex County College, New Jersey(2012), “Exposed: Today’s Photography/ Yesterday’s Technology” (San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art), “Measure of Time”(Oakland Museum of California at City Center). His work is published in several books including “Self Exposure: The Male Nude Self-Portrait” and “From Art to Landscape”. Recently he completed an artist-in-residence at STAR (Shipyard Trust for the Arts) in the Hunter’s Point Shipyard in San Francisco. His studio is located at Minnesota Street Project Studio in the Dogpatch area of San Francisco.

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AZIN SERAJ In Honor of Ahed Tamimi 2018, Mixed media installation: inkjet print on linen paper, plexiglas 5” x 7” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This banknote uses designs from old Palestinian pounds and images from news media to honor Ahed Tamimi, the 17-year-old Palestinian activist and freedom fighter who is currently being detained by Israeli forces. Read their full story here.

Foreign Exchange incorporates the emblems taken from banknotes and utilizes images from news media to highlight voices of resistance from countries that have been impacted by U.S. national interests. The banknotes feature influential figures and monumental events that draw attention to socio-political tensions existing both within a country’s borders and beyond. Foreign Exchange offers an alternative platform to archive and share cultural currencies.

ARTIST’S BIO Azin Seraj is an Iranian native and Canadian citizen who currently lives in the United States. Her video, photography, and multimedia installations reflect the varied textures of her transnational experience of displacement and alienation but also of unexpected connections. She uses sounds and images to create visually and socially lush experiences, layering spaces and multiple time frames. With an interdisciplinary approach to marginalized experiences, Seraj explores connections between colonial histories, citizen journalism, activist networks and contemporary politics in South West Asia, South Asia and North Africa’s diaspora. Seraj’s work has been featured internationally in exhibitions and festivals including SFMOMA, Open Space Arts Society in Canada, Tate Liverpool, (S8) Monstra De Cinema Periférico in Spain, Berkeley Art Museum, Minnesota Street Project, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Croatian Association of Artists. Most recently, she has been the recipient of the 2019 Kala Media Artist Award.

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SARAH A. SMITH Hawk Silhouette in Gold 2020, Gold ink on black paper 7.5” x 8.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $350

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Last August, I saw this hawk perched in an old pine tree while walking behind the Diamond Heights shopping center in San Francisco. I painted the scene a few weeks later in metallic gold ink on black paper. The wildfires had been raging during that time. I tried to capture the terrifying look of those dark days in this little painting.

ARTIST’S BIO In her drawings and installations, Sarah A. Smith always tries to present an emotionally charged narrative. Sometimes its a sad or somber feeling, other times its an intense power struggle between opposing forces. Symbolic animals are the characters in her narratives, eagles and wolves appear frequently in her work. Sometimes they are symbolic stand-ins for us, the United States, other times they’re depicting the sad fates of apex predators linked together in simultaneous doom, spotlit in their reduced landscapes, highlighted against a white void. Smith studied painting at Carnegie-Mellon university and has since shown work in Bay Area spaces such as the Palo Alto Art Center, the De Saisset Museum, SFAC Galleries. Smith was awarded a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in 2006 and has worked as a for-hire painter in private residences for over 25 years.

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JENNIE SMITH Inside World

2020, Graphite and watercolor 30” x 22” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION I began this drawing last May in response to how day to day life had quite suddenly shifted during the beginning of the pandemic. The drawing captures changes that have become a part of our everyday lives- masks, the taped x’s on the ground, guiding one where to stand while grocery shopping, days spent indoors looking outside windows, and so on.

ARTIST’S BIO Jennie Smith lives a ten minute walk from the Pacific ocean. Because of this close proximity, the ocean and where land comes in close contact with the sea has seeped its way into her drawings. She entwines narrative threads to describe the gravity, wonder, and reverence of her subjects. Smith draws what is close to her, what is beyond her physical reach, and what is from the realm of the imagined.

Smith was born in 1981 in San Francisco, CA where she currently lives and works. She received an MFA from University of California, Berkeley & BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Her work was featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, New York and she has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. She is represented by Rena Bransten Gallery, in San Francisco.

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CHRIS SOLLARS Time to Check Our Privilege 2021, Collaged paper, wood 19.5” x 11” x 1.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $350 Starting Bid: $200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Collages during COVID on social and environmental concerns.

ARTIST’S BIO Sollars has exhibited and performed solo and collaborative works in venues nationally and internationally, including SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, and Steven Wolf Fine Arts, all in San Francisco; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; The New Children’s Museum, San Diego; Berkeley Art Museum; and numerous others. His honors include the 2007 Eureka Fellowship Award, 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Grant, 2009 Headlands Center for the Arts residency, 2012 Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Grant, and a 2013 San Francisco Arts Commission: Individual Artist Commission Grant. His work has been featured in articles and reviews in the New York Times, BOOOOOOOM, Huffington Post, Juxtapoz, among others. Born in Indianapolis in 1976, Sollars grew up in Maine before earning a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and M.F.A. from Bard College. Based in San Francisco since 1999, he is also director and curator of 667Shotwell, an experimental space in his home for artists to do time-based works.

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NELLIE KING SOLOMON Red Crop 3 2021, Acrylic and ink on Mylar 12” x 12” Courtesy of the Artist and MMFA, Palm Desert CA Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid:

ARTIST’S BIO Nellie King Solomon approaches painting with equal parts irreverence and admiration. Solomon studied architecture at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City and holds a BA in Art from University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She has taught art at Stanford University and California College of the Arts, and worked as an artist assistant to David Ireland, as well as provided architectural restoration on the Palazzo St Polo in Venice. Solomon currently has an extensive exhibition of her works up at SMoCA Scottsdale Museum of contemporary Art, through January 31th 2021. Solomon has had solo exhibitions at Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Ochi Projects LA, Los Angeles, CA; and many more. Group exhibitions have featured her work at The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; and Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA, among others. Solomon’s work has received extensive critical acclaim; featured in Art in America, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Hyperallergic, Harvard Review, Architectural Digest, among other publications. Her work is in the collections of BAMPFA Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Steve Wynn: Wynn Las Vegas; Wynn Macau, Blue Shield, Google, Visa, Yves Béhar, and Sabrina Buell.

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CHARLENE TAN Researching and Remembering, Partial Green Tapioca 2020 2020, Tapioca, digital print, plywood, pva glue 28” x 23” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $3,500 Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My ​Research and Remembering​ series highlights my study and progressively reductive (in detail) reinterpretation of tribal weaving patterns of the Philippines. In making this work, I follow patterns to create a muscle memory of a cultural heritage that has been lost due to generational diaspora. For several pieces in this series, I layered colorful, edible powders and beads (e.g. violet purple ​Ube,​or yam powder, bright green and pink tapioca starch balls) atop a printed substrate to create the patterned works. These food-based materials perform Filipino cultural identity. The painstaking application of materials ultimately results in a document of my own labor in connection with the history of weavers in my family.

ARTIST’S BIO Charlene Tan is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work is thematically focused on the immigrant diaspora and its repercussions, post-assimilation identity, and anthropological investigations of nationalism and cultural heritage. Her work is inspired by her Filipina-Chinese-American identity reconnecting her artistic cultural heritage of tribal weaving patterns of the Philippines. Using found images by means of digital scanning these images are edited to pair down to the essence of the pattern. Once free of scale and color, Tan retraces the patterns to attempt to create a muscle memory of a cultural expression that was once commonplace with her ancestors. ‚ÄãHer work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in the US, and is part of several private collections. She holds a BA History and Theory of Contemporary Art with a focus on New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. Houston, Texas born, she lived in the Philippines before moving to San Francisco for her education and work, and is currently a visiting artist at Minnesota Street Studios.

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SARAH THIBAULT Full moon in the morning 2019, Oil on canvas 8” x 10” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Part of an ongoing series inspired by the phases of the moon ARTIST’S BIO Sarah Thibault’s exhibition experience includes projects with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Interface Gallery, HILDE Gallery, Steve Turner Contemporary, Mark Wolf Contemporary and ART in Embassies. Her work has been featured in The San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, Artsy, CARLA, San Francisco Magazine, SFAQ, The Examiner, The Huffington Post, and 7√ó7. She is the founder of the online publication Artists + Travel and a Charter Resident of the Minnesota Street Project studios since 2016. She holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts, a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA from the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

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SIMON TRAN

2020, Acrylic and India ink on cradled wood panel 18” x 18” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION My work is about reconfiguration, resistance,and a hearty bowl of soup.There are sensibilities in my work stemmingfrom a confluence of seemingly disparate influences including post-punk, my family, anime, retro video games, Vietnamese-American culture, the Vietnam War, and mysticism as an act of defiance towards colonial rule.I make reference to the human body through paintingorganic shapes.Aswaddled child or acontorted figure may inhabitthe compositional landscape along withpatterns that stop, start, and overlap.Color is a strong influence on my work.I combine nostalgic colors that reshapes memories.There is no resolve in the narration ofmy work, instead there are slow builds that lead to chunky riffs that wormhole into hard-edged noise, all loopyloopy and stuff. The composition is complicated by these layers of personal narrative mixed with processing a cultural history. My work is a meditative redirection of cultural trauma caused by war and colonialism in Vietnam.

The colors make reference to the rainbow herbicides used during the Vietnam war.Millions of gallons of Agent Pink, Agent Green, Agent Blue, Agent Purple, Agent White, and Agent Orange were all sprayed along the countryside by the Americans in order to kill the mangrove forests and thousands of acres of crops.Long lasting effects have inflicted illness on generations of Vietnamese and American soldiers.Children continue being born of disabilities because of the defoliants that have seeped in the ground. It is controversial to criticize these atrocities done by America, so the work is aptly abstracted.The organic shapes have faint resemblance to the silhouette of maimed children or camouflage patterns.The fine, fragile lines have resemblance to roots, wilted leaves, insect husks, or shedded snakeskin. Another layer in my work is reference to mysticism as an act of defiance towards colonial rule.During colonial rule of Vietnam by the French, in 1937, there was a short-lived rebellion called the Dieu Python Movement that happened in the central highlands of Vietnam involving the indigenous people, the Montagnard.A village chief of the Montagnard was Sam Bram who claimed that his daughter had given birth to a python.The snake was thought to be the rebirth of the Snake God. This gave impetus for rebellion against Christian colonialists.The water that the python was birthed in was thought to have magical qualities which gave those who drank the water invincibility against French bullets.This upheaval was quickly thwarted by the French.The compositions I create have a sense of fluidity and movement where shapes and leaves float across the surface in a witchy kind of way.The compositions have an elusive quality to them that is my nod to the defiant mysticism.

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ARTIST’S BIO Simon Tran is a father, artist, and educator from Long Beach, CA. His art practice involves painting, drawing, installation, and murals. He received a bachelors in Art Practice from University of California, Berkeley. Currently Simon is the Arts in Education Program Coordinator at Southern Exposure and the gallery manager at Berkeley Art center. His work has been shown at Berkeley Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, and various galleries around the country. The artwork of Simon is in the Capital One Art Collection.

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TARA TUCKER Nan and Brian Together 2019, Graphite on paper 23” x 29” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Retail Value: $4,800 Starting Bid: $1,800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This drawing, done in graphite on paper, is from a group of work all based off of photographer Nan Goldin’s book of photography: “The Ballad of Sexual Dependancy”. In this series and in most of my work, I use animals and plants that are often threatened in the wild, or hold a deep significance to my life, as subjects. In this “Nan” series, I depict my personal subjects as stand-ins for Goldin’s photos.

Often the drawings are not exact studies in pose or background, but offering the viewer a thread of familiarity and reflective body language. The two Spider Monkeys in: “Nan and Brian Together” is based off of Goldn’s self portrait of herself with her partner Brian. They are in bed, in what could be an “after” moment. Sexual innuendo and deep contemplation abound. As an artist, I very much enjoy the art making process. Drawing or sculpting for hours, uninterrupted is what I love to do. When I draw, I use 5-7 different hardnesses of graphite letting the layers build up and create a look of volume and deep texture. I grew up around an orchid and horticulturally obsessed family, and my Mom volunteered as a taxidermist for a local museum. Odd stories about my life mixed with Flora and fauna runs deep in my heart and I can’t get enough of the subject.

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ANNA VALDEZ Orchid Pattern

2019, Porcelain, underglaze and glaze 9 1/2” x 6” Courtesy of the Artist and Hashimoto Contemporary Retail Value: $550 Starting Bid: $200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Each ceramic work is hand-thrown and painted by the artist to be included into still life vignettes that later become reference materials for paintings.

ARTIST’S BIO Working across painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, and digital media, Anna Valdez examines the relationship between material and cultural identity. Valdez incorporates articles found in domestic spaces such as plants, textiles, vessels and keepsakes into her work as a method of storytelling. Her colorful work invites the viewer to consider objects as emblematic of personal and collective experience, shifting between still life and portraiture. Ceramics play a central role in her painting practice as they help her generate objects that she then draws from in her large scale painting installations. Anna Valdez received her MFA in painting from Boston University in 2013. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States. Valdez’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, New American Paintings, and Booooooom.com. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, Masur Museum of Art, the Danforth Museum, The Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, Hashimoto Contemporary and the Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco, The Nancy Margolis Gallery in NYC, and Dianna Witte Gallery in Toronto Canada.

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JAMIE VASTA Kiss-me Kate 2013, Glitter on panel 20” x 16” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $3,200 Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Jamie Vasta is an Oakland-based artist who uses glitter and glue on wooden panels to create figurative paintings that explore dynamics of beauty and power. Her work counters glitter’s kitsch and camp with explorations of mortality, gender roles, sexuality, and violence.

ARTIST’S BIO Jamie Vasta (b. 1980, Rochester, New York) received her BFA in 2003 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and her MFA in 2006 from the California College of the Arts. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Crocker Museum in Sacramento and the Berkeley Art Museum.

Vasta’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Art ltd., Artweek, the SF Bay Guardian, and the New York Times. She is represented by the Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco.

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BEN VENOM the Shield

2018, Hand-made with recycled fabric 20” x 18” Courtesy of the Artist and Hashimoto Contemporary Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Working with repurposed materials to create textile-based pieces, I contrast the often menacing and aggressive counterculture components of skateboarding, punk/metal music, and the occult with the comforts of domesticity. This collision of traditional quilting techniques with elements tied to the fringes of society re-envisions the story of the material through a softer lens.

ARTIST’S BIO Ben Venom graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 with a Master of Fine Arts degree.

His work has been shown both nationally and internationally including the Levi Strauss Museum (Germany), the National Folk Museum of Korea, HPGRP Gallery (Tokyo), Jonathan LeVine Gallery (New York), Charlotte Fogh Gallery (Denmark), Wolverhampton Gallery (England), and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. He has been interviewed by NPR: All Things Considered, Playboy, Juxtapoz Magazine, KQED, Maxim, and CBS Sunday Morning. Venom has lectured at the California College of Arts, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Southern Graphics Council, Humboldt State University, Oregon College of Art and Craft, and Adidas. Recently, he was the artist in residence at MASS MoCA and the de Young Museum. Ben Venom is currently adjunct faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute.

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ANDY VOGT Wall Fossil (nowhere arch) 2016, melamine and plaster on panel 9” x 5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Drawings using material; collaged, plastered-over, scraped down/excavated to reveal fossilized architectural gestures trapped in the subconscious of the wall.

ARTIST’S BIO Andy Vogt grew up in the suburbs of Washington DC and attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned a BFA in Intermedia, a program focused on time based media, performance and installation.

He lived in Pittsburgh PA until 2000. His current work using reclaimed wood from demolished buildings, started around 2004, a few years after moving to San Francisco. Since then, his work has been exhibited nationally and locally including solo shows at Eli Ridgway Gallery, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Southern Exposure, The Museum of Craft and Design and Ampersand International Arts. Group exhibitions include Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, Swarm Gallery and Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. He also was an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.

Andy lives and works in San Francisco, California.

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CATHERINE WAGNER Sula, Toni Morrison 2013, Archival pigment print 24.75” x 9.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $7,000 Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Wagner’s trans/literate series continues her investigation of cultural archives that use unique systems to transfer knowledge. Each book is broken into macro- and micro-abstractions. Viewed at a distance, the diptychs are color fields, revealing only the color of the cover and the white page of an open book printed in braille. The photographs convey a strong understanding of physical loss, documenting the books as flat surfaces that create a sculptural illusion of punched relief, with a distance that reinforces the irreplaceable loss of a physical dimension. This piece is custom framed by Sterling Art Services.

ARTIST’S BIO Catherine Wagner has been an active international artist, working photographically as well as with site-specific art, lecturing extensively at museums and universities for over 30 years. Wagner’s process involves the investigation of what art critic David Bonetti calls “the systems people create, our love of order, our ambition to shape the world, the value we place on knowledge, and the tokens we display to express ourselves.” She has received many significant awards, including the Rome Prize (2013-14), a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowments of the Arts Fellowships, and the Artadia Award, among others. Her work is represented in major collections nationally and around the world, such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, SFMOMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, MOMA, MFA Houston.

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HANNAH WAITERS Black Aporia 2020, Framed DC Print 18.5” x 24.5 Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $350

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Black Aporia, also known as Protest Sign-None Have Triumphed Without a Poet (2020), was included in The de Young Open. It is documentation of the gesture of protest amid the Black Lives Matter Era. The documented protest sign took the form of a viewfinder and comprised historical materials creating the illusion of reflection on Market Street in San Francisco. The artwork attempts to visualize endless possibilities for social freedom despite conditions of erasure in the Bay Area.

ARTIST’S BIO Hannah Waiters is a Bay Area-based Black visual researcher and conceptual artist. Her conceptual material art practice and research interests include museum studies, Black Atlantic philosophy, historical phenomenology in art history, and historical materialism. In her third year at California College of the Arts, Waiters is earning an MFA in Fine Arts and MA in Visual & Critical Studies. In 2020 Waiters’ MFA showcase headlined Hyperallergic, and the de Young Museum highlighted and exhibited the same thesis work in 2021. In 2019 Waiters’ was also a recipient of an Edwin Anthony and Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan award.

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ADRIAN OCTAVIUS WALKER Down Under 2018, Archival pigment print 13.5” x 20” Courtesy of the Artist and pt. 2 Gallery Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Adrian Octavius Walker’s work is inspired by the black body, dynamics of the black family and archival work related to the African American experience and the untold stories they share. Working in both film and digital-format photography, Walker creates penetrating portraits influenced by his deep awareness of the nuances that pervade the human experience.

ARTIST’S BIO Walker has shown work at pt. 2 Gallery in Oakland, The Hoxton in Chicago, and at the University of Alabama. His greatest milestone to date is being named one of the prize-winning artists in The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today Competition on display at the National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Walker is currently represented by pt. 2 Gallery Oakland, CA. 268

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AMANDA WALTERS Pink Flamingo 2019, Porcelain 27” x 6” x 8” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION During the period of tropical development in Florida from the 1920s to the 1940s, a small number of landowners and developers transformed the landscape in the image of an Edenesque re-creation of all the tropics as a playground for the upper and middle classes. Before this period, the landscape in Florida consisted of the muddy green palette of oak trees, palmetto bushes, and mangroves. The pine trees, oak trees, and palmetto brush inhabited by the first peoples, and then found by the “pioneer” settlers were augmented with imported plants from regions across the globe. Resorts were constructed around planned landscapes, and found landscapes were tropicalized, fenced off, and turned into tourism parks. These sites combined plants, animals, and imagery from tropical locations across the globe and amalgamated them into a domesticated version and singular location-South Florida-establishing an illusion and an aesthetic that still dominates the region today. The flamingo is a sign of tropicality. It marks a place with the fantasy of other places. Flamingos once roamed south Florida as native species, but were wiped out entirely by hunters and feather collectors. Soon wealthy inhabitants of the new south Florida recognized the loss and started importing flamingos from tropical locations to saunter around their estates. Today they are considered a captive species.

ARTIST’S BIO Transplanted from the state of Florida, Amanda Walters is an interdisciplinary artist who writes, weaves, sews, and makes soft sculptures. Her works explore the strange and well manicured history of her home state, but also cover the geographic region of the tropics, the construction of landscape, and page 9 stories from the newspaper. Walters considers myth, memory and storytelling as filters to understand and contextualize historical narratives. Walters received her MFA in Studio Practice and MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts, and her BFA with emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has shown nationally at Berkeley Art Center, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Wattis, Perry Family Center, San Francisco, TOJO Gallery, Chicago, and Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, among other places. She is based in Oakland, California.

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LEWIS WATTS Emory Douglas, Johannesburg South Africa 2016 2016, Archival pigment print 21” x 29” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Retail Value: $2,200 Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This is part of a portrait series of black creatives who are comfortable in their own skin.

ARTIST’S BIO Lewis Watts is a photographer, archivist/curator and Professor Emeritus of Art at UC Santa Cruz. His research and artwork centers primarily around the “cultural landscape” primarily in communities in the African diaspora. His work has been shown or is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Autograph London, The McEvoy Foundation San Francisco, The Cite de la Musique Paris, Light Work Syracuse NY, The Oakland Museum of California, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art New Orleans, The Amistad Center for Art and Culture Hartford CN among other institutions. He is the author of “Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era” Heyday Books Berkeley 2020, “New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition” UC Press 2013, and “Portraits” Edition One Books 2020. He is represented by the Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco.

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DEIRDRE WHITE Freeway At Bayshore 2015, Ink and goauche on green paper 23 1/2” x 28 1/2” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION From a series of studies of the carts of un-housed people I observed near my studio and home in San Francisco, this one is ink and gouache on green paper . The series began with a wonder and respect for the meticulous, inventive and resourceful way the carts and other wheeled rigs are reconstructed to carry both shelter and belongings, and I initially approached the subject here with a nod to classical drapery studies of the renaissance.

ARTIST’S BIO Deirdre White makes paintings and works on paper that might best be described as a sort of magical realism carrying narrative stories that seek to locate meaning and beauty in a dark world. Addressing themes of mobility, interior and exterior, and vulnerability and exposure, the imagery is inspired in part by the dystopian housing crisis in the Bay Area, and embodies the constant fatigue of being tethered to an unsustainable notion of the California dream. She was awarded a Jon Imber Painting Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center in 2018 and recently had a solo show at Ampersand International Arts in San Francisco. She teaches at City College of San Francisco and is a Lecturer at UC Davis.

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DAVID WILSON Snow Path

2008, Charcoal pencil on found paper 14”x16” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $750

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION while walking through the snow near the house where I grew up ARTIST’S BIO David Wilson is an artist based in Oakland, CA. He creates observational drawings based in direct experiences with landscape and orchestrates site-based gatherings that draw together a wide net of artists, performers, filmmakers, chefs, and artisans into collaborative relationships. He organized the experimental exhibition The Possible at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and received the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 2012 SECA Art Award.

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JENIFER K WOFFORD Memento, 992020 (after Thiebaud) 2021, Acrylic and ink on paper 14” x 11” each Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,800 Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION Part of a new series referencing the September 9th 2020 wildfire orange sky day in Northern California and 2020 phenomena as a whole. The figure references Wayne Thiebaud’s 1963 painting “Supine Woman”. (Thiebaud turned 100 years old in 2020.) While shown at SoEx as a side-by-side diptych, the two paintings can also be displayed in other degrees of proximity (facing one another, in separate walls/rooms, etc).

ARTIST’S BIO Jenifer K Wofford is a San Francisco-based artist and educator. She is also 1/3 of the Filipina-American artist trio M.O.B. Wofford is a 2017 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Her other awards include the Eureka Fellowship, the Murphy Fellowship, and grants from SFAC, Art Matters, CCI, and Balay Kreative. She holds degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA) and UC Berkeley (MFA). Wofford’s current project is “Pattern Recognition,” a mural on the Asian Art Museum’s new Lawrence and Gorretti Lui Hyde Street Art Wall. Her work has been exhibited in the Bay Area at the Berkeley Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, YBCA, San Jose Museum of Art, Southern Exposure, and Kearny Street Workshop. Further afield, she has shown at New Image Art (Los Angeles), Wing Luke Museum (Seattle), DePaul Museum (Chicago), Silverlens Galleries (Philippines) and Osage Gallery (Hong Kong).

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CHELSEA WONG Art Opening

2021, Watercolor and gouache on paper 6.25” x 6.25” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This is a continuation of my miniature watercolor painting series, paintings of places I love.

ARTIST’S BIO Chelsea Ryoko Wong is a painter and muralist whose vibrant figure compositions reflect the diversity and style of her home in San Francisco. Through the use of watercolor, gouache and acrylic techniques, Wong creates busy scenes of co-mingling people drawing from real-life events and her imagination.

Her work is known for celebrating racial and cultural diversity, promoting working class communities and evoking a sense of curiosity and wonder. Through heavily stylized and idyllic imagery, Wong creates an encouraging visual statement promoting joy, acceptance and openness to one another.

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CHRISTINE WONG YAP Working Together [suite of four prints, “Listening” “Equal Empowerment” “Mistrust” “Subjugation & Obedience”] 2017, Letterpress-printed reduction linoleum cuts 11.75” x 10.25” each Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $800 Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION These letterpress-printed reduction linoleum cuts are from a series of 14 prints inspired by examining and practicing collaboration, as well as political displays of disregard for others. Though mix-andmatch books are typically for children-the same phase of learning good manners-I made Working Together to acknowledge overlapping modes in working relationships.

ARTIST’S BIO Christine Wong Yap (she/her) is a visual artist and social practitioner who works in community engagement, drawing, printmaking, and publishing to explore dimensions of psychological wellbeing, including belonging, resilience, interdependence, and collaboration. She partners with organizations to conduct participatory research projects whose outcomes include site-specific, public artworks, zines, and books. She has participated in over a dozen residencies and studio programs. A longtime resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, she has lived and worked in Queens, NY since 2010.

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ROCHELLE YOUK pinku

2019, Florescent ink on 180 gsm paper 18.25” x 17.75” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $350 Starting Bid: $150

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION ‘Pinku’ is a 6 layer, reduction woodblock print and its title comes from the word for pink in both the Korean and Japanese language. The dual nationality of the singular word points to the dark and complicated history also shared by both nations, lurking behind the bright hue.

ARTIST’S BIO Rochelle Youk is an Asian American visual artist, who explores tradition and other facets of cultural identity, to craft objects, primarily taking the form of painting and sculpture. Her work has been shown at Root Division, Kala Art Institute, The Kearny Street Workshop, The Performance Art Institute, and The Berkeley Art Center, where she is also a member of the program committee. After earning an MFA from SFAI in 2010, Youk completed a bookbinding apprenticeship at letterpress publisher, The Arion Press, where she later served as Head Bookbinder, and also illustrated the press’ 100th edition, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Currently, Youk works as an independent bookbinder for Bay Area artists and publishers, in addition to her studio practice, located at the Dogpatch Collective in SF, CA. 284

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MINOOSH ZOMORODINIA The Decolonial Atlas 2018, Burned fabric, blue tape on canvas 22”x18” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION This is recording of labor time representing an atlas. Documenting the dedicated time to fabricate a sculpture from the path of walking recorded by an app on a smartphone. The atlas addresses the value of land and time.

ARTIST’S BIO Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist who makes visible the emotional and psychological reflections of her mind’s eye inspired by nature. She employs walking as a catalyst to reference the power of technology as a colonial structure while negotiating boundaries of lands.

Zomorodinia earned her MFA in new genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, and holds a Masters degree in Graphic Design and BA in Photography from Azad University in Tehran. She serves on Southern Exposures’s curatorial council, Berkeley Art Center Program Committee, and a Board Member of Women Eco Artists Dialog. She has received several awards, and residences including the Kala Media Fellowship Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, I-park Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Djerassi Residency, and Recology Artist Residency.

She has exhibited locally and internationally.

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Host Committee RADIANT Robin Ducot

GLEAM Eric Rodenbeck + Santhosh Daniel SHINE Aaron Bastian + Catherine Foo DAZZLE Nicole Avril + Daniel Gelfand Michelle Branch Rebecca + Vince Camacho Catherine + David Kevane Micaela Heekin + Chris Hart Rachel + Keith Petersen Stephanie Tuttle + Ramsey Walker GLITTER Mary + Tony Conrad Taraneh Hemami + Mohsen Emaminouri The Mauro Family Hope Mohr Gay Outlaw + Bob Schmitz Dan Toffey + Julia Harter TWINKLE Nilus De Matran + Jennifer Morla Trisha Lagaso Goldberg + David Goldberg Amanda Hughen Gallia Levy + Alfred Yan Genevieve Quick + Thom Bruce Vaughn Shields + Greg Elich Sharon Tanenbaum + Matty Person Tracy Wheeler + Paul Rauschelbach Jenifer K Wofford + Kyle Herbert Valerie Wade Máire P. Walsh 288

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Gallery Partners Altman Siegel

Anglim Trimble Gallery Berggruen Gallery Black and White Projects Rena Bransten Gallery Rebecca Camacho Presents Casemore Kirkeby Catharine Clark Gallery The Compound Gallery Dolby Chadwick Gallery Euqinom Jack Fischer Gallery CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions Haines Gallery Hang Gallery Eleanor Harwood Gallery Hashimoto Contemporary Charlie James Gallery Johansson Projects Gallery Wendi Norris Paulson Fontaine Press Pt.2 Gallery Romer Young Gallery Jessica Silverman Gallery Patricia Sweetow Gallery Traywick Contemporary

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Contributors DIAMOND SPONSORS

Bonnie Bridges and Bill Banyai GOLD SPONSORS

BRONZE SPONSORS Meryl Bennan, Barb. Co Real Estate Red Dot Studio

SPONSORS

Allbirds Fichelson Real Estate KITCHENTOWN

IN-KIND SPONSORS

FRAMING SPONSORS Barbara Anderson Gallery and Framing General Graphics North Berkeley Frame Mark Ryan Fine Arts The Painters Place Small Works Spot Design Sterling Art Services Michael Thompson Framing 290

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Conspirators AUCTIONEER

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Nicole Avril President

Aaron Bastian

Jenifer K. Wofford Vice President Dan Toffey Treasurer

AUCTION CO-CHAIRS

Nicole Avril + Rebecca Camacho

Genevieve Quick Secretary

AUCTION COMMITTEE

Taraneh Hemami

Sharmi Basu

Olivia White Lopez

Rebecca Camacho Susan Krane

Nicole Avril

Marc Mayer

Rebecca Camacho

Hope Mohr

Taraneh Hemami

Qianjin Montoya

Valerie Imus

Natani Notah

Margaret McCarthy

Yétundé Olágbajú

Stevie Sokolouski

M. Valentine

Dan Toffey

Máire P. Walsh

Genevieve Quick

STAFF

Valerie Imus Artistic + Co-Director Margaret McCarthy Executive + Co-Director Sharmi Basu Operations + Development Coordinator Anthony Russell Lead Preparator Stevie Sokolouski Communications Coordinator Simon Tran Artists in Education Coordinator Minoosh Zomorodinia Documentation Manager Jazmyn Bryant Programs + Exhibitions Intern Megan Karanguktar Community Arts + Development Intern

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